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Review: ‘Hilarious’ book tells us how to avoid dying
The book’s graphic humor on illness may alarm sensitive readers, with vivid descriptions like tainted barracuda effects, warned the reviewer.
- Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune, warns readers who imagine symptoms that '99 Ways to Die' probably isn't for you in its local entertainment outlet and weekly newsletter.
- The book frames morbid scenarios as comedy, and 99 Ways to Die uses its blunt descriptive title as a tone-setter for dark humor while cataloging bizarre fatal scenarios.
- One example in the book shows eating tainted barracuda producing the sensation `your teeth are falling out`, Hewitt notes.
- The review helps readers decide whether to read the book and promotes the outlet's weekly entertainment newsletter to reach readers prone to imagining symptoms.
- The premise's clash of humor and morbidity makes '99 Ways to Die' a striking, odd proposition, and the review notes it may alienate some readers while promoting the entertainment newsletter.
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Review: ‘Hilarious’ book tells us how to avoid dying
Writing about “99 Ways to Die: and How to Avoid Them” is an easy job, and not just because the descriptive title does so much of the work. To give you an idea of what to expect from Ashely Alker’s…
·Helena, United States
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