Beverly L. JenkinsCritiques

You see these on the internet or in your email and always chuckle. This is a nice compilation of signs, situations and packages that will make you giggle at the mistakes. A great coffee table book or one to have in the john. This would make a cute stocking stuffer for someone with a sense of humour.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Hilarious!

I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It can often be difficult for me to rate these sorts of books. They're the kind I tend to pick up and browse in a book store, but rarely actually read. As far as entertainment value goes, this book definitely delivered. I recognized a few images as things I'd sent to Jonas for a laugh, a few more that I came across on my own online... many I hadn't, but were still very entertaining. The hilarity wasn't CakeWrecks level, but it was still just enough to amuse.

My main complaint is that the book wasn't longer, wasn't quite as funny as it could've been. It was enough to get a chuckle, more than enough to make the reader wonder just how such errors had ever been made, but not enough to really make me laugh as a reader or do much more than roll my eyes. I wanted a little bit more than that from the book.

Nevertheless, if you're looking for a quick smirk this book will certainly deliver.

I laughed so hard I scared both cats.

If you're a fan of Damn You, Autocorrect (or The Blog of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks) and laughing at others' mistakes, this will be up your alley. Just instead of text messages, it's signage, so the mistakes are bigger and more public.

Some of the captions aren't anything special, but others really expand on the humor in the photos.

What can I say? Sometimes you just need a good laugh, and this fit the bill.

Note that I received a free copy of this ebook from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not a fan of coffee table books for one main reason: they are the "one hit wonders" of the publishing world. This one is no different.

All of the pictures are of scenes in which someone inadvertently hung a frame, door, window, sign, etc., wrong. The most annoying thing was that several were obviously photoshopped.

I'll pass on actually buying this one.

Overall, I liked this one. I will be honest and tell you that I didn't find all of the pictures in this book to be all that funny. There were others that had me laughing so hard that tears were pouring down my face. That is pretty high praise since I don't often laugh that hard.

The idea behind the book wasn't really a new one for me. I go on social media so I have seen many photos like these in various places online. I noticed that many of the photos used in the book were originally from Instagram and other websites. The photos are funny but what really cracked me up were the captions on the page that went along with them.

The photos that I found really funny were the ones where someone really screwed up and didn't even seem to realize it. I do suspect that some of the photos were the result of a language barrier more than anything else. I would recommend this book if you looking for a funny little book to take a look at for a bit but I would probably suggest that you grab this one at the library.

I received an advance reader edition of this book from Andrews McMeel Publishing via NetGalley for the purpose of providing an honest review.

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life. http://carolesrandomlife.blogspot.com/

Full review to come!