The author recounts impressive errors from every place and era, proving that true ineptitude demands a certain kind of genius

Cannibals in the Cafeteria: And Other Fabulous Failures

Humor & Entertainment

Pile, Stephen

Humor

Harpercollins

The Book of Heroic Failures: Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Shares humorous anecdotes about mistakes, failures, blunders, costly errors, weak excuses, and unsuccessful books, plays, inventions, actors, preachers, marriages, commercials, and computers

The Book of Heroic Failures

Ballantine Books

A catalogue of cock-ups and incompetencies that can only restore one's belief in humanity's fundamental mediocrity. Stephen Pile also wrote "The Book of Heroic Failures".

The Return of Heroic Failures

Reference

David&Charles

The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord Sugar') to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Stephen Pile, President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and author of the number-one best-seller The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. Failure is everywhere. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. The Syrian entry, for example, holds the world all-comers record as the driver who got most lost under satnav direction (5000 miles). From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you. The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures fails miserably at failing to be a runaway success amongst funny books.

The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

Faber&Faber

The best of No.1 bestselling The Book of Heroic Failures and The Return of Heroic Failures.

The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures

It is difficult to be really bad at something, but the people in this book manage to succeed! The book features tales of drivers who can't drive, travellers who get lost all the time and policemen who can't catch criminals. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.

Children's Books

Penguin Longman Pub

The Incomplete Book of Failures

Musson Book Co

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Cannibals in the Cafeteria: And Other Fabulous Failures

The Book of Heroic Failures: Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain

The Book of Heroic Failures

The Return of Heroic Failures

The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures

The Book of Heroic Failures

The Incomplete Book of Failures