The Darwin Awards Box Set

by Wendy Northcutt

Books in This Collection
The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action
The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest

This ultimate Darwin Awards collection includes more than 400 hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures, showing how uncommon common sense can be.

Delightfully funny . . . If you are not yet aware of The Darwin Awards, you should probably be pitched out of the breeding population . . . A delicious sermon in support of common sense.

The Baltimore Sun

Genres: Nonfiction

873 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Wendy Northcutt graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993 and founded www.DarwinAwards.com shortly after.

Northcutt is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection, The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest, and The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design. Her newest addition to the series is The Darwin Awards: Next Evolution."

Reviews

[Charlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

not to be read in one sitting

[Nagaraj · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was rolling in laughter.....some of the one-liners were really brilliant

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read if you're in the mood for something: adventurous, dark, informative, lighthearted, reflective, & fast-paced

Book Rating: 2.5 stars 
The books were okay, definitely outdated but that's to be expected since the first book was originally published in 2000. I liked the start of each chapter with the information about the topic, and some educational type material.

    

I wish they'd taken the time to edit out the duplicates. I ended up skipping half of one chapter in the second or third book because the stories were already told in a previous book. I also wish the stories had been a bit less repetitive at times, how many times do I have to hear about people getting out of the car at a safari park and it ending badly?

    

I agree with the author, that these should be consumed in smaller chunks as they get depressing and that was one mistake of mine when reading this. It started out being humorous, but because I read it so quickly it started to seem sad.

    

Narrators' Rating: 3.0 stars
Some of the narrators were excellent and others were not. The production quality was quite poor though.


Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Self-harm, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Excrement