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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Christmas
Turkey on fire? Obnoxious relatives headed your way? No one to kiss on New Year's Eve? Here are illustrated, step-by-step instructions to help you survive the joys of the Christmas holiday season;
How to Silence a Group of Carol Singers
How to Rescue Someone Stuck in a Chimney
How to Deal with a Cancelled Flight
How to Untangle Christmas Tree Lights
How to Treat a Tongue Stuck to a Pole
How to Thwart Gift Snoopers
How to Overcome Christmas Depression
How to Explain That There is No Santa
... and dozens of other festivities gone awry.
How to Silence a Group of Carol Singers
How to Rescue Someone Stuck in a Chimney
How to Deal with a Cancelled Flight
How to Untangle Christmas Tree Lights
How to Treat a Tongue Stuck to a Pole
How to Thwart Gift Snoopers
How to Overcome Christmas Depression
How to Explain That There is No Santa
... and dozens of other festivities gone awry.
- GenresHumorChristmasNonfiction
176 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
About the author
Joshua Piven
90 books24 followersJosh Piven is a television writer and producer, speechwriter, playwright, and the author or co-author of more than twenty non-fiction and humor books, including the worldwide best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.
He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled.
Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person.
Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won’t—encounter: everything from “how to fend off a shark” and “how to wrestle an alligator” to “how to avoid the Freshman 15” and “how to determine if your date is an axe murderer.”
Piven is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania—and living proof that English majors aren't necessarily failures.
He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled.
Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person.
Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won’t—encounter: everything from “how to fend off a shark” and “how to wrestle an alligator” to “how to avoid the Freshman 15” and “how to determine if your date is an axe murderer.”
Piven is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania—and living proof that English majors aren't necessarily failures.
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January 1, 2024
Read so I could finish the Reshelving Alexandria 52 book challenge category "book with a silver or gold cover". You'd think out of 100+ books I read this year, there would be at least one that meets this qualification, but no. Luckily I found this stashed from who knows where.
This was mildly funny in parts and mildly helpful in others. This would make a good white elephant gift in a gift exchange.
This was mildly funny in parts and mildly helpful in others. This would make a good white elephant gift in a gift exchange.
January 12, 2018
I find these books to be amusing and occasionally informative but some of the information in this book seems recycled from other worst case scenario handbooks. Although it’s a relief to know that I could safely help Santa should he become stuck in my chimney.
May 5, 2022
It IS a survival manual, true, but I don't see how it's particularly funny except in just a few spots.
January 27, 2019
One of the books in my daughter's Christmas collection.
3 Stars = I liked the book.
3 Stars = I liked the book.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews