[.ca] The Stupid Crook Book (ISBN 0740726943)

UNBELIEVABLY stupid crooks:
Another reviewer mentioned seeing this book on The Today Show. I saw that too. Al Roker was cracking up over it. This is the type of book I refer to as a "booty-sleeper." That's what I call a bathroom book* that is really too compelling to be a bathroom book, because it holds your interest so long you forget you're on the toilet until your bum falls asleep. Like Leland Gregory's crazy-911-call books (also booty-sleepers), The Stupid Crook Book is just really funny and stupid and highly amusing. It's unsettling to know there are people this dim among us, but I giggle almost continuously whenever I pick up this book. *For people who weren't raised with books in their bathroom: a bathroom book is any type of light reading consisting of small stand-alone pieces. It's a book you can open to pretty much any page and read a complete bit or bits within a minute or two--like trivia books, almanacs, collections of short-short stories or essays, and books like this one.

The stories are funny but the packaging is so-so:
The thing here is to not confuse the real-life stupid (and funny) stories with the packaging that these stories are delivered to us. While each story is condensed to about a page there is a regular attempt on each and every account to hide some little fact at the start of the story, use that hidden fact as the punch line, and then finish the story with some poor pun on the crimial being caught, spending time behind bars, etc. On any given item it works, but it quickly becomes tedious when reading the book cover to cover. I think this book is best taken by reading no more than 3 or 4 stories at a time, or for reading one aloud and your next gathering of friends. The cover price is a little high in my estimation. Get it at a discount and you'll do ok.

I've never laughed so hard!:
I have never read a book that made me laugh so hard that I was literally crying. The Stupid Crook Book is outrageously hilarious! The one story that really had me going was the one about the robber who broke into a home and made a \ocostly\ccall to a psychic. The guy was so dumb, he used his real name when calling the psychic. When the phone bill came a month later, the police easily traced the call back to the hotline and discovered the robber's identity and later arrested him. WHAT AN IDIOT! There are all kinds of idiotic crooks in this book, and all I could do was laugh at them! If you're needing lots of laughs in your life, then this book is the answer. Trust me, you're guaranteed to get the hiccups with this one!

Hilarious!:
These idiot crook out-takes are belly-achingly funny. Some of these criminals are so stupid it's unbelievable, but that's what makes it so funny. Not one to miss!

A total crackup!:
One story is funnier than the next. This is one of those laugh-out-loud books that you want to share with a friend (or anyone who happens to be nearby)! Never thought I'd get such a kick out of crime! Fun little book to give to friends.