January 30, 2012 | Reviews
We started our site, TheSharkGuys.Com, to follow on from our first book, a humorous collection of drinking-related feats of grandeur called The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death and Other True Tales of Drunken Debauchery (Penguin Global 2007 – We urge everyone to check that one out. If it’s not the greatest drinking book you’ve ever read, we’ll give you a full refund – if you’re standing in front of us and happen to be armed.)
Slowly, our humorous Top 10 lists began to take off and started generating hits and our readership curve started to resemble that of the real estate market before things went spiraling southward, only without the negative implications of that analogy.
Funny Top 10 lists are undeniably popular. We have no idea when that all started; we don’t own a time machine, and if we did we’d use it to make millions in the stock market and thrash childhood bullies (the one instance a grown man beating the holy tar out of a 10-year-old would be justified).
Our subsequent exposure in Cracked, Mental Floss and FARK, can be likened to a joint being tossed into the woods at a bush party and the multi-alarm blaze that later takes days to extinguish.
TASTES LIKE HUMAN: The Shark Guys’ Book of Bitingly Funny Lists is our new list book – not all Top 10s mind you – taking a cue from big banks and unregistered charities, we massage our numbers when it suits us and feature Top 6s, 7s, 20s, well…you get the idea. Humor books like these often end up derisively called “bathroom books” but if we can put grins on readers’ faces that can’t be attributed to a fiber-heavy diet, then our job is done.
The book is portable enough for a quick read in the privacy of one’s own commode and available right now on the Amazon Kindle (if the two are combined, we urge caution as we’re not sure if the latter is waterproof). Check it out on Amazon!
But e-books are BAD. Look, Jonathan Franzen says so. Must be true.
Bought it anyway. You can stop haranguing me now. And thanks for the mention, very sweet of you :-)
Thanks, Tim, and hope you enjoy it.
I can’t disagree with Mr Franzen that e-books are corroding values — this one in particular.
And the haranguing shall never cease.