The Complete Excuses Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Avoiding Blame and Shirking Responsibility for All Your Own Miserable Failings and Sloppy Mistakes

by Lou Harry

Finally, we all have a good excuse! This definitive guide covers the entire gambit of self-justifications, so everyone from the frustrated CEO to the mid-level executive, from the soccer mom to the lazy student can convincingly It’s not MY fault!

Discover brand new, impeccable excuses for being absent when you should have been present, arriving late, missing the deadline, flunking the class, slacking on the job, consuming too much junk food, and lots more. Plus, there are great ideas straight from the rich and shameless and a list of monosyllabic excuses for those who can’t be bothered to tell a whopper. Best of all, the book has a devious reversible cover so you can carry it anywhere and always have a lie at hand!

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Samantha Rentería · Rating 4 out of 5]

Im not used to reading books without a plot or a story so reading a bunch of excuses was funny but kinda boring at some parts

[Krystal Arriaza · Rating 5 out of 5]

*** Lou Harry and Julia Spaldings book “the complete excuses handbook” is a funny non fiction read. The theme of the book is getting yourself out of situations you put your self in with a lie. Both authors are well established and have other work similar to this. There is no real story line to this book due to the fact it’s a legit handbook. The book was interesting and funny to me because I like to make the occasional excuse and I’m mad I haven’t thought of many of these excuses. What makes this book memorable is that it touches about so many topics from sex to general stupidity. In a world that gets in the way of itself it’s nice to know that people can find humor in everything. Things happen where you need to be excused every now and then and it happens. I know I occasionally have to drag myself along and now I have an excuse to do it!