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Not exactly what I expected. I was not familiar with the column, but the promise of short pieces about interesting and sometimes weird research did appeal to me. But these entries were all very short (to be fair, there is a big reference list at the end of the book). Each entry is accompanied by a...
It takes a while to hit its stride, which in a short book is not a good thing. Skip the first two stories though, and it's quite amusing and clever. If you really want to save time, skip the others and go straight to the last story: "Mr Fraser, The Undead Substitute Teacher". A zombie arrives to tea...
I didn't laugh, and they weren't clever. They were just children's stories with death added in to make them "inappropriate." I only really liked (and only mildly) the one about the exchange student, but I found some of the racist remarks troubling (I know that it was supposed to be a "commentary" on...
This is one of those things that you regret paying as much as you did for it but will be hipster-proud of yourself for having.It was so cute.
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