Deadly Mistakes: Real Obituaries Gone Amusingly Wrong Review

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(More customer reviews)"Deadly Mistakes" is a hoot. The actual obits are interspersed with witty asides, so it's a little like a written version of the old Mystery Science Theater (MST)3000 TV/Movie series, where an actual awful movie would be shown with guys in the audience making wisecracks. In any event, the obits themselves are worth the price of the book; where did they find these things? And the writing for the asides is excellent. I'm a lawyer; say what you will about us, we know good writing when we see it--and it's here in this book. But beyond the technical prowess and research reflected by Deadly Mistakes, the main point I want to make it that it's just plain fun to read! I highly recommend it!
Beau

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When it comes to humor, Americans are said to hold nothing sacred. Deadly Mistakes: Real Obituaries Gone Amusingly Wrong is an example of that sentiment.Given our near obsession with fame and celebrity, it should come as no surprise that "ordinary people" would go to extraordinary lengths to be considered noteworthy. Deadly Mistakes provides the evidence in the obituaries of the "unfamous." Average folks are remembered by family and friends in send-offs that unintentionally go off the rails in amusing and bizarre ways.What's to be said of someone whose family wants him to be remembered for inventing an electric pickle...that stinks?Of someone who, "not wanting to give up his love of uniforms, became a campus police officer?"Or of someone who achieved the mysterious title of "Puissant Sovereign of the Red Cross of Constantine"?Plenty.All this and more is included in Deadly Mistakes: Real Obituaries Gone Amusingly Wrong.These obituaries have not been edited (except for length and to remove last names). They stand on their own as commentary on the human need to find meaning in it all... somehow, some way.Deadly Mistakes should remind readers of one thing: it's best to go out laughing. Just ask the guy whose memorial service was held at Hammerhead's Bar, just east of The Strip, in Vegas.

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