The Little Book of Big F*#k Ups: 220 of History's Most-Regrettable Moments

by Ken Lytle, Katie Corcoran Lytle, Bob Carney

Nobody's perfect. Every day, some guy forgets his wife's birthday, some schmuck drives his Corolla into the Lexus in front of him, and some mother forgets to make cupcakes for her kid's school bake sale. But you'll never sweat the small stuff again. This book gives these denizens of disaster a major self-esteem boost by detailing 220 of the world's most easily avoided catastrophes, such

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Humor

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty decent history spanning a century as more of major screw ups that could have in most cases been avoided. Although tragic and perhaps could be perceived as morbid in some regard dependant on the screw up the book basically states the facts that regardless of the tragedies there was almost always some moron to blame and usually rightfully so. I’m reading another one of these books at the moment too and amazingly nothing has been repeated from book to book.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many interesting accounts of big screw-ups throughout history.

[Brenda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the regrettable moments described are interesting. I just wish the book gave more facts instead of trying so hard to be funny.

[Melike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Her sayfada farklı yıllardaki aptallıklar anlatılıyor. Bence bazı bölümlerinde Douglas Adams havası var. Tam bir tarihi aptallık yolculuğu.

[Christopher Obert · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the idea behind this book, 220 of history’s most regrettable moments. After all, people that don’t remember history tend to repeat it. The book chronicles 220 one page stories throughout history. Each story is told with much humor and sarcasm. The problem is that after reading tragedy after tragedy, disaster after disaster, I found the sarcasm no longer funny! I also feel that the authors missed a few important events and added way too many irrelevant sports entries. Even with these problems I have to say that I found the book very interesting and worth the read. I would like to see other history books from these trivia authors.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel as if it has been a long time since I have read something that delivers exactly as expected. This little book does exactly that, in a very big way. Granted, it is not necessarily high art literature, or even a concise narrative...but certainly a page turner, and a mildly amusing one at that. Strongly recommended for the lover of the arcane.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was both amusing and interesting. There were times that the history geek in me was like 'Wait! There's more to it than that! You're completely ignoring the context and simplifying it way too much!', but it was still a fun read.

[Tyler Bruns · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was frustrated that half the stories were of joeschmo's dying to stupid mistakes. If I wanted that, I would have read the Darwin Awards :( entertainly written though!

[Rita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for bathroom reading.