Perfect Put-Downs: A Collection of Acid Wit

by Laura Ward

Don't get mad?get even! Packed with lightening comebacks and witty ripostes, Perfect Put-Downs is the ideal compendium for anyone who has ever been lost for words in the face of dazzling rudeness or blinding stupidity. It features acid wit from all eras?from the classic vitriol of Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, to cutting commentary from such modern comics as Robin Williams, David Letterman, and Joan Rivers. This book proves that while nice is all well and good, nasty is far more fun.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2004

Reviews

[Jonathon · Rating 3 out of 5]

My only issue with this book is that they have some text that's magenta, and some page backgrounds that are pink, and some genius thought it'd be a good idea to put the 2 together making it kind of hard to read them. Other than that, it's a nice little collection.

[Jo Blackburn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't find anything clever or amusing in this book, alot of extracts of quotes which just didn't make any sense to me.Maybe I'm just hard to please, or maybe I expect too much from a put down, or maybe I'm just not very nice?

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of dazzling insults, comebacks, and put-downs.

[Frank Taranto · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some reaal y good put downs, but a lot of just so-so stuff too.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one had some good bits, but was surprisingly too anglo as in English even for me and I'm an anglophile.