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23rd out of 49 books
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Awkward Family Photos
Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen ang...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
May 4th 2010
by Three Rivers Press
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Is it silly to purchase a book when these same photos and many more can be found on the website of the same name? Perhaps. But who can possibly resist this sort of hilarity?
...or bad judgement?
...or dysfunction?
It is impossible to view this book without feeling nostalgic for my own childhood. Crazy family, weird 1970's and 1980's fashions, incredibly awkward photos. This book, and the website which inspired it, are like crack to me. It is a plethora of awkwardness ~ candid snapshots, unintention...more
...or bad judgement?
...or dysfunction?
It is impossible to view this book without feeling nostalgic for my own childhood. Crazy family, weird 1970's and 1980's fashions, incredibly awkward photos. This book, and the website which inspired it, are like crack to me. It is a plethora of awkwardness ~ candid snapshots, unintention...more
There is a little bit of WTF inside every family album. Some families have more of these WTF bits than others, and let me be the first to offer you my sincerest condolences if you and yours have less than your fair share. It is my belief that the universe has a limited number of incongruous photo opportunities, and I feel sorry for those lacking documentation of wonderful family togetherness-awfulness, because I'm pretty sure my family stole all these photo ops from your family. Which is why I...more
I was actually kind of disappointed with this book. I wanted it to be hilariously funny, but it was only kind of funny. My favorite picture is at the back and took me a while to figure out - the family is sitting on the couch and there was nothing strange about the picture until I noticed they were sitting on someone else and all you could see of her was her eyes. That did make me laugh.
Otherwise, I found only a few pictures really funny, and my husband was looking over my shoulder going, "I don...more
Otherwise, I found only a few pictures really funny, and my husband was looking over my shoulder going, "I don...more
I am a devoted follower of the Awkward Family Photos website (at www.AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com), and knew that they had a book out (as of May, 2010); but I had not actually seen it in person until I was at Barnes & Noble today, seaching for a book to peruse while putting in some Comfy Chair Time. I very much enjoyed this book, though, to be honest, I saw no need to actually purchase it, as it only took me about half an hour to get through it.
Awkward Family Photos (website) devotes itself to po...more
Awkward Family Photos (website) devotes itself to po...more
This was the funniest book I have ever read. It consists of really awful family photos with hilarious captions. I picked it up while waiting to meet my friend at Borders and I read the entire thing. I thought I was going to get myself kicked out of the store because I was making such a scene. I could tell that people were not sure if I was laughing or sobbing, because I was in complete histarics. When my friend arrived (I was there about an hour before her, hence the ability to read the entire b...more
As you start reading the introduction to this book you'll find yourself chuckling but as you get futher into it you will be laughing out loud to strange looks from your dear hubby or dear children or for that matter anyone within hearing distance. Some of the pictures are just above and beyond hysterical and the captions with them are perfect. I can actually picture myself in some of the circumstances with which the photos had been taken. I'm sure if I went digging through my family photo albums...more
If you have seen the website, then you know exactly what you are getting with this book. If not, it is a collection of those awkward, at times funny, at times painful photos that almost any family has hidden in an album someplace. By the way, that family in a barrel photo of Niagara Falls, I actually remember being in one myself with my siblings a very long time ago. I wonder if my father or my siblings still have that album.
The photos do vary in quality. Some are indeed laugh out funny. Some a...more
The photos do vary in quality. Some are indeed laugh out funny. Some a...more
Let's be clear that Awkward Family Photos is mostly a picture book (duh), but it's an AWESOME picture book. I had seen the website some time ago, but I think it's much more enjoyable to flip through the book version and catch some details that might go undetected if viewing on a computer monitor. (I was given a copy of this as a birthday gift).
I wouldn't recommend buying this at all, but it's worth a library check out, or borrowing from a friend if you know someone who has it. Most of the pictur...more
I wouldn't recommend buying this at all, but it's worth a library check out, or borrowing from a friend if you know someone who has it. Most of the pictur...more
I check out AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com a couple times a week and the pictures are usually funny.
This book is similar to the website and is divided by chapters like Mom and Dad, The Kids, Siblings, Grandma and Grandpa, Vacations, etc.
Included in the chapters are short anecdotes. It's a quick read.
I borrowed the ebook from the Toronto Library. I wouldn't recommend it in epub format. There was usually a picture on the top of the page followed by a header and/or short description. But they weren't funn...more
This book is similar to the website and is divided by chapters like Mom and Dad, The Kids, Siblings, Grandma and Grandpa, Vacations, etc.
Included in the chapters are short anecdotes. It's a quick read.
I borrowed the ebook from the Toronto Library. I wouldn't recommend it in epub format. There was usually a picture on the top of the page followed by a header and/or short description. But they weren't funn...more
Husband and I read this together. As per usual, the captions on the photo's were hilarious. You have to wonder what people were thinking with some of these photos. There are stories in it, as well. Some are hilarious and some had me scratching my head in confusion.
I waited forever for the digital book to become available from my library. It was worth the wait. I wouldn't buy it though as most of the pictures can be found on their site. Maybe if the book was longer? It would make a nice coffee ta...more
I waited forever for the digital book to become available from my library. It was worth the wait. I wouldn't buy it though as most of the pictures can be found on their site. Maybe if the book was longer? It would make a nice coffee ta...more
This book reminded me of my infamous 4th grade school picture where I was mid-sneeze when it was taken. Or how about the time I was trying not to smile in a family photo? Yes, it brought up some awkward, but very funny memories of photos of past (you know, instead of those of the future).
Anyway-
This book had it all:
Wet pants
Matching outfits
Odd poses
Funny fashion choices
Awesome hairdos
and much more...
But, you will find that you just don't laugh at many of these pictures. I think they would have...more
Anyway-
This book had it all:
Wet pants
Matching outfits
Odd poses
Funny fashion choices
Awesome hairdos
and much more...
But, you will find that you just don't laugh at many of these pictures. I think they would have...more
Jul 26, 2010
Eastofoz
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Readers looking for a really funny "picture book" for adults
This book had some very hysterical family photos and the captions or little blurbs about them made them even funnier. The book is a compilation of way too hilarious pictures that most people can probably relate to from the stilted family portrait where no one looks “natural” to the freaky background wedding/graduation/big event shots. Done in all seriousness, there are some “period” pieces (80s hilarity especially), some “re-enactments” (à la Dynasty, Ma & Pa Kettle for some priceless ones),...more
While this book was entertaining it seemed toned down from what you'd find on the website, and consequently it wasn't quite as funny. That said, it kept my 10 year-old chuckling and I didn't feel like I had to stand over her shoulder to snatch it out of her hands should anything 'not appropriate' appear on the pages.
Since this book was an review copy, it meant the pictures weren't the 'real' ones. So I can't comment on the quality.
USE? The only use I can think of for AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS is as...more
Since this book was an review copy, it meant the pictures weren't the 'real' ones. So I can't comment on the quality.
USE? The only use I can think of for AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS is as...more
Jun 10, 2011
Cheryl/Aradanryl
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Cheryl/Aradanryl by:
Overdrive-El Paso Public Library
Shelves:
humor,
non-fiction
Wouldn't say this was hilarious and after a while, it started to feel a bit mean. I did like the one where everyone is sitting on the couch and until you study the picture, you don't realize they are all sitting on someone and only her face shows. The story of the little girl who wasn't going to leave the game she was playing with her sister was hilarious, until the ending which bothered me a great deal.
Read this using Overdrive on an iPad which didn't keep the captions/stories with the picture...more
Read this using Overdrive on an iPad which didn't keep the captions/stories with the picture...more
Not much plot, but the visuals are fabulous ;-0.
At first I thought my age might have something to do with how much I enjoyed these photographs, meaning many of them were "typical" photos of my childhood and youth, the cringeworthy family Christmas sweater shots, the totally hokey backgrounds, the hairstyles that you will regret to your dying day. But my 12-y-o daughter also enjoyed them tremendously. So it is just a fun book to sit on the couch and howl with laughter with your loved ones and rem...more
At first I thought my age might have something to do with how much I enjoyed these photographs, meaning many of them were "typical" photos of my childhood and youth, the cringeworthy family Christmas sweater shots, the totally hokey backgrounds, the hairstyles that you will regret to your dying day. But my 12-y-o daughter also enjoyed them tremendously. So it is just a fun book to sit on the couch and howl with laughter with your loved ones and rem...more
The cover photo of the family laying facedown on top of each other in a stack says it all. Lots of funny photos. Reminded me of every funny photo taken of my family growing up.
A favorite for me was "There's plenty of room on the couch." https://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/...
In my family there always seems to be a couch in every family photo, but we always seem to jam more people than there is room. Quite opposite from this photo.
I also love the geriatric Smokey the Bear costume.
https://awkw...more
A favorite for me was "There's plenty of room on the couch." https://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/...
In my family there always seems to be a couch in every family photo, but we always seem to jam more people than there is room. Quite opposite from this photo.
I also love the geriatric Smokey the Bear costume.
https://awkw...more
2.5 - Not a whole 3 stars for me. I silently chuckled less than 5 times total. Most of the pics are weird or slightly funny - nowhere near funny enough to actually lol.
The authors would be better off running this like another site - I think it's called rateyourgirlfriend.com or something like that. They post the photos and the sure users comment captions THEN the site users "like" the comments. The comment(s)/caption(s) with the most likes equal the funniest. I've literally choked laughing so ha...more
The authors would be better off running this like another site - I think it's called rateyourgirlfriend.com or something like that. They post the photos and the sure users comment captions THEN the site users "like" the comments. The comment(s)/caption(s) with the most likes equal the funniest. I've literally choked laughing so ha...more
Mike Bender and Doug Chernak, Awkward Family Photos (Three Rivers Press, 2010)
It was a couple of weeks ago (as I write this; you will be seeing them posted on the same day. Internet time is a funny thing) that I wrote a lukewarm-at-best review of I Can Has Cheezburger?, the blog-to-book that kind of started this whole schlemazel. And I'll admit that maybe I'm simply looking in the wrong places for my blog-to-book fix. After all, everyone loved Julie and Julia, right? (One problem: I loathe memoi...more
It was a couple of weeks ago (as I write this; you will be seeing them posted on the same day. Internet time is a funny thing) that I wrote a lukewarm-at-best review of I Can Has Cheezburger?, the blog-to-book that kind of started this whole schlemazel. And I'll admit that maybe I'm simply looking in the wrong places for my blog-to-book fix. After all, everyone loved Julie and Julia, right? (One problem: I loathe memoi...more
I had difficulty not laughing out loud at Borders while flipping through this book. Then I bought it and took it to a kid's birthday party and sat in the corner of the yard and laughed constantly and loudly while kids zipped down an inflatable slide. Some of the pictures herein are just hilarious. From the girl dreaming of a Cabbage Patch doll to the kid leaning on his brother's crotch to the one of the boy falling into the vortex of Stonehenge. I could not stop laughing.
I think anyone born before 1985 will probably have a family picture somewhere that could be included in this book. The 80s and 90s were really the years of these crazy posed pictures with the goofy matching clothes.
Not all of the pictures in the book are laugh out loud funny, but some of them definitely are. I wish there had been more!!
This is a perfect bathroom or guestroom book. Its the kind of thing everyone will flip through and find something to laugh at.
Not all of the pictures in the book are laugh out loud funny, but some of them definitely are. I wish there had been more!!
This is a perfect bathroom or guestroom book. Its the kind of thing everyone will flip through and find something to laugh at.
I love the website, and this book is truly hilarious... Appreciated the extra text about family and photos. Many of these are pre-digital images, so they had to take the roll of 24 shots to be printed to find these gems. And I like that it is people who send in their own photos rather than people taking photos of strangers in awkward moments....
Great if you want a big laugh - and a good present for siblings....
Great if you want a big laugh - and a good present for siblings....
Loved this book! I laughed--uncontrollably--several times at these real family photos submitted to the author's website. As funny as it was, I also found myself loving these families in these real-life awkward photos. And in the same spirit, loving the awkward not-perfect families that I am part of. I think of it as a photographic Walt Whitman poem--I see America--being awkward. Very endearing and hilarious!!
Some points made me laugh out loud despite myself - primarily because I have photos just like these buried somewhere in my family albums.
The one that tickled me the most was the one where the child was posed with a tiger and the title reads "This is me. And a tiger. In a shopping mall." Oh, yes... I have a photo of myself and my older sister in much the same position. Weird, you say? Really? ;)
The one that tickled me the most was the one where the child was posed with a tiger and the title reads "This is me. And a tiger. In a shopping mall." Oh, yes... I have a photo of myself and my older sister in much the same position. Weird, you say? Really? ;)
Proof that there are wackier families out there than mine! I especially loved the one with the 80s Mom and the punk kids (beyond awkward) and the Christmas one with the girls in their pjs and the shirtless Dad (? or maybe he's just a nice homeless man they invited in to celebrate). Anyway, it definitely inspires me to look through my old photos and think about what they say about my family - scary thought!
Aug 02, 2011
Laura
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Laura by:
www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com
Shelves:
do-not-own,
read-at-barnes-and-noble
Fall-on-the-floor, riotously-laughing-out-loud funny! A great friend and I caused a bit of a scene at Barnes & Noble while we were scanning through this one. Although we were trying to honor the decorum of the public space...the hilarity could not be contained. Some of these scenarios hit way too close to home!
Highly recommend. Based on website:
www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com
Highly recommend. Based on website:
www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com
I just inhaled the most hilarious book! It's called Awkward Family Photographs. We have all experienced the AFP. This book chronicles it so beautifully without the pain and torture of seeing our own faces in these unsightly memories. I laughed out loud. I laughed until tears streamed down my face. I laughed until I experienced a mild asthma attack. You will too! It's that great.
Awkward was too gentle a word for some of these clunkers. Painful, disasterous and down right creepy would be better adjectives. My personal fave was the engagement photo of a young couple, the girl in what had to be her prom dress, standing behind her man who was shirtless and sporting a farmer's tan. Also, I'm pretty sure he was gay. I'm gonna predict that marraige didn't last.
If you need a laugh-out-loud funny book then this is a great choice. Filled with family photos that will make you chuckle, squirm, and bust out laughing, the authors did a great job of picking out old photos that show the truth behind all those phony posed family pictures we're so used to. A great book to give as a gift to something with a great sense of humor!
Oct 17, 2012
Mary
added it
I saw this on the way out of Barnes and Noble and stood at the table to read/view every picture. I was laughing out loud flipping through it---the photos are so incredible funny, "funny cause it's true." Great coffee table book or gift or just great book to flip through when you need photographic evidence that many families were weirder than your own.
Are you in need of a laugh? My friends and I had tears streaming down our faces while looking at this one. Seriously, one of us almost lost a contact. There's nothing mean-spirited here. It's just good, geeky fun. (I guess there is a website too, so if you've already seen that, then you might not be as delightfully entertained by the book as I was.)
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Mike Bender is a screenwriter whose credits include "Not Another Teen Movie" and the MTV Movie Awards. He created the hit website AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com with childhood friend Doug Chernack in May 2009 after seeing an awkward vacation photo hung in his parent's house.
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