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A Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Wer
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- Steinberg, Neil
- ISBN
- 9780385479707
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So you've got these fond hopes for blissful love, professional glory, fame, and fortune. But in the back of your mind there's that nagging fear. The man of your dreams will laugh in your face. Your hated office rival will come up with some whizbang marketing idea and get promoted, while you'll be asked to "help out with the phones." Steven Spielberg will buy the rights to your screenplay, spend $40 million producing it, and the critics will savage the film, mercilessly singling out your work for especially contemptuous, poisonous derision. But hey, everybody fails sometime. It's inevitable. So don't fear failure. Embrace it. In Complete And Utter Failure, Neil Steinberg joyfully explores the many fascinating facets of failure, from pointless failure (a brief history of several very dumb attempts to climb Mount Everest) to product failure (Reddi-Bacon, smokeless cigarettes, and Baby Jesus dolls) to institutionalized failure (the horrifying Dickensian spectacle of the National Spelling Bee, in which 8,999,999 children out of 9,000,000 fail in an excruciatingly public and humiliating fashion). This delightful book is filled with surprising and useless arcana--who really invented the telephone, what turned on Isaac Newton--guaranteed to help you annoy people at cocktail parties. Along the way Steinberg meditates on his own myriad miscues and disappointments, beginning with his failure to perform a magic trick in front of the neighborhood kids at age four (he blames Captain Kangaroo). Complete And Utter Failure is a wonderfully literate, witty book that issues a ringing message for our times: If at first you don't succeed, have a scotch and forget about it.
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Publisher
Broadway Books
ISBN-10
0385479700
ISBN-13
9780385479707
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1483005
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Publication Year
1995
Subject
General, Social Psychology
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Complete and Utter Failure : a Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops
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Not Available
Subject Area
Psychology, Référence
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Trade Paperback
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7.5 Oz
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Trade
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