The Darwin Awards
Wendy Northcut
Dutton
Nonfiction, Humorous Nonfiction/Sociology
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Description
You've heard of them for years, may have read them in the paper, and no doubt have seen a few in your e-mail Inbox: the Darwin Awards, created to honor those individuals who help ensure humanity's survival of the fittest by dying in spectacularly idiotic ways before breeding. This book contains the "best" and "brightest" of the Darwin winners and nominees, current and historical, real and urban legend.
Review
Those of us who find this kind of thing funny will certainly enjoy this book. I know some people don't consider death - even death by means as stupid as playing Russian Roulette with a live landmine in a bar - amusing. I certainly got a kick out of it.