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Happy Cruelty Day!: Daily Celebrations of Quiet Desperation
by
Bob Powers
For everyone looking to find a little extra magic in a life with little to celebrate, Happy Cruelty Day! is here.Beginning on January 1, this book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a strange, dark and humorous short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it. These 365 daily doses of delight, perversion, and nonsense include "Hire Someone...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
December 26th 2006
by St. Martin's Griffin
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Like the best of George Saunders, John Hodgman (who contributed a front-cover blurb), or the Onion, this hits straight at the sweet spots of the human psyche, taking the traditional subjects of tenderness and pathos (love, family, friendship) and mixing them up with a dark, cynical sensibility (drugs and crime and child abuse and dysfunctional relationships, e.g.). In this case, over 365 calendar entries, it can get a bit numbing. For maximum impact, take this in smaller doses: a "day" or a "wee...more
Sasha leant me this book, and explained that it would make me a far worse person than I actually am.
This collection of short stories, if you will, indeed had that effect. More often than not I found myself laughing harder than I'd care to admit at truly horrifying prospects. In particular "Some of the Cats Day" struck me as hilarious, along with "Cruelty Day."
Sasha, you like really, really, really strange books.
I'm very grateful for that.
This collection of short stories, if you will, indeed had that effect. More often than not I found myself laughing harder than I'd care to admit at truly horrifying prospects. In particular "Some of the Cats Day" struck me as hilarious, along with "Cruelty Day."
Sasha, you like really, really, really strange books.
I'm very grateful for that.
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Foul, hysterical and always inappropriate!
very evil but in a hilarious way
You never really stop reading this book - it has a task/suggestion for each day of the year, i.e. May 9 - If the Coffee Shop Waitress Touches Your Palm When She Gives You Your Change, She Totally Wants It Day!, or January 7 - Join a Community Crime Watch Program In An Effort To Make Friends Day!, or April 2 - Visit With Your Assassin Friend Day!.
It's very funny and very strange and it'll both make you chuckle and sometimes scratch your head. The best ones are when you can do both for the same e...more
It's very funny and very strange and it'll both make you chuckle and sometimes scratch your head. The best ones are when you can do both for the same e...more
A strange and entertaining book that will most certainly take your mind off of the mundane details of life or the seemingly insurmountable obstacles we all must face.
The premise of Happy Cruelty Day is that there is some awful, morbid, completely depressing situation to acknowledge each day of the year - to celebrate the cruel, bizarre, and too-dark-to-think-about. Of course, this is hilarious, and right up my alley.
The best celebration I've read so far is February 15: Lie To Your Cats About The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ Day. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. You just have to read it.
The best celebration I've read so far is February 15: Lie To Your Cats About The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ Day. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. You just have to read it.
Very funny, especially in short doses. Very dark and clever, but can get formulaic if too many days are read in a short sitting.
Similar to Will Cuppy's "How to Get From January-December". Another excellent book.
August 1st is "Just Because You Can't Remember Anything About Last Night, It Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You're an Alcoholic" Day. Enough said.
August 1st is "Just Because You Can't Remember Anything About Last Night, It Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You're an Alcoholic" Day. Enough said.
Works as a blog; does not work as a book. The editors should have picked and chosen the 30 or 40 best "Girls Are Pretty" columns, rather than printing a full year's worth of material like they did.
This is THE book for that tristed somebody in your life. My personal favorite is "Lie to your cats about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ Day!"
Also, check out girlsarepretty.com
Also, check out girlsarepretty.com
This would be one of the greatest books written. Ever. My favorite day would be "14 Ways to Tell a Cajun Chef to Go Fuck Himself Day".
I've wanted to write like this guy ever since I first found his Web site, girlsarepretty.com.
Like a bunch of little Raymond Carver stories, some more fucked up, some less.
Bob Powers should be revered as a God among men and ladies.
Powers is a god among men. Lisez-ça.
This is the book I give to people.
Hilariously depressing.
What a strange book.
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