- ISBN13: 9780399156519
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, The Book of Awesome is a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life’s little moments:
• Popping Bubble Wrap
• Wearing underwear just out of the dryer
• Fixing electronics by smacking them
• Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding
• Watching The Price Is Right when you’re home sick
• Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
• Waking up and realizing it’s Saturday
Sometimes it’s easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up ar… More >>
Comments
This book is easy to read, because it is nothing more than a series of short takes on what the author calls “awesome” things that occasionally happen in an ordinary life. And it is fun, because most of the things he talks about are either funny, helpful, or just make you feel good. But hearing another person fart is “awesome”? The smell of gasoline is “awesome”? Popping bubble wrap is “awesome”? Dude, if that is awesome, you are a sad person. Pretty cool? Yes. Not depressing? Certainly. Better than being poked in an eye with a sharp stick? Most definitely. But “awesome”? No. I think I’ll reserve that superlative for truly awesome things like hot looking girls at nude beaches and pay increases. The things in this book are nice and positive, and the book is a fluffy light read that is enjoyable enough. But readers should be advised to lower their expectations or ignore the title (which should have been something like, “The Book of Not Bad at All”).
Rating: 3 / 5
The Book of Awesome is a fun book that is a light, entertaining read. Each “chapter” is something that author Neil Pasricha deems to be awesome. Some entries are a page and half long, some just a sentence or two. A few of the entries are little things you may overlook that are awesome like popping bubble wrap, fixing electronics by smacking them, the parking lot pull through or finding out something you were going to buy anyone is on sale. Others are obvious like an old favorite t-shirt being comfortable or the smell of fresh cut grass. While some don’t seem awesome at all like intergenerational dancing or scraping all the lint off an overflowing lint trap.
Rating: 3 / 5
I thought this was a relatively simple book – good for a day to unwind, or an airplane ride.
Rating: 4 / 5
Its a nice sweet book and would be good for the person who needs to be reminded to look at the everyday things in life that give pleasure and usually doesnt cost you money.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is not a book that you can read right through (well you could, but I think you’d get sick of the word Awesome! after a while!), but it is nice to pick up after a frustrating day. Just about every page will make you smile and will stir up some memories. Cute book for cheering up.
Rating: 4 / 5