Crows, Papua New Guinea, and Boats: A new collection of irreverence.

by David Thorne

Featuring all new, never before published material, Crows, Papua New Guinea, and Boats is the latest release by David Thorne, author of The Internet is a Playground and 27bslash6.com

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Comedy

200 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2018

About the author

David Thorne is an Australian humourist, satirist, Internet personality and New York Times best-selling author. His work has been featured on the BBC, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 for an email exchange in which he attempts to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The exchange spread virally via email and social networking sites, leading to a surge of visitors to his website 27b/6 (27bslash6). 27b/6 features a collection of humorous emails and articles from Thorne's life. These and additional essays appear in Thorne's book, The Internet is a Playground. Published by Penguin Group and released on 28 April 2011, the book debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Reviews

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

David Thorne se tornou um dos meus autores favoritos. Sua forma cínica e mordaz de reinterpretar a realidade garante várias risadas, e sempre tem alguma coisa em seus livros, que por mais zombeteiros que sejam, emociona.

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I see Thorne, I buy. This one was somewhat slower than his others. It's still probably a 3.5/5, but apparently half point adjustments are prohibited on goodreads. Some laugh out loud moments, but I wish he'd make up more email threads. They're the bees knees, I tell ya.

[George Shafer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another laugh out loud book!

I have read all of David’s books and after laughing out loud for a long period of time it is hard to believe the book is over already. Cannot wait for the next one.

[Mathew Walls · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of this had already been published on his website so I'd read those bits before, and the new stuff wasn't his best, but there was still a decent amount of new, funny content. If you liked the previous ones then you'll probably also like this one.

[Roxanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vond deze niet zijn leukste; desalniettemin vermakelijk als ‘luchtig tussendoortje’. Of een mooie om mee te starten als je David Thorne nog niet kent: het wordt dan alleen maar beter ;D. Kleine heads up: je moet wel van zwarte humor houden 😬.

[Cory Busse · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very funny book that made me laugh out loud several times. Which is no small feat because I'm highly dubious of books that try to be funny. I'd have rated this book higher, but Goodreads stupidly does not allow for half stars in its ratings, and the author sound like a bit of a dick.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

David Thorne may just be the king of send ups. He doesn't pull his punches with people unfortunate enough to stumble his way and do something ignorant, selfish, or rude. His short essays and email correspondence will give you life if you enjoy the driest humor and the sharpest sarcasm.

[Jean-Sébastien Goulet · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is mainly divided into three stories, hence the title.

The stories are longer than usual, go on many (many) tangents and all of it is very funny. There were a couple of laugh out loud moments.

If you like David Thorne, you'll love this book for sure.

[Austin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Plenty of laughs

I feel that this one isn’t as strong as his earlier works, but it’s still a great read.

Smooth transaction, great Ebayer, highly recommend, A++++++

[Betania · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t very often actually laugh out loud when reading.... but David Thorne gets me every. time.

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic David Thorne. Cringe inducing humor that makes you wonder why you keep reading and can't stop.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is there to say? I always gather a nice little delight of David Thorne's love of being a dick to weiners.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite. The whole book seemed like filler for the last story.

[Ben Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

New David Thorne books are like extra birthdays. *blows streamer*

[Thiago d'Evecque · Rating 4 out of 5]

Aquela dança entre a trollagem de matar de rir e o bullying de morrer de pena. Ele intercala como ninguém o divertido e o deprimente.

[Susan Mangigian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hysterical.

[Stephanie Molnar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I laughed harder during the first half of this book than I have in a long time.

[Christophe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was removed from the marketplace altogether and scrubbed from 27B/6. I'd estimate that roughly 50% of the material in here was reused for the subsequent book, Burning Bridges to Light the Way.

My best guesses as to why this book has disappeared:
1) a fake Ricky Gervais quote on the cover that the real Ricky Gervais didn't find amusing, or
2) a chapter on Papua New Guinea that may have been offensive to Muslims

Neither of these appears in the subsequent book.

[Wendy Richardson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great as usually. Laugh out aloud funny.