Contest: Win One or Both of These Humorous Books
November 11, 2008 by SMBush
This contest is now closed, and the winners are:
For a copy of Men With Balls
- Preston from Me and the Blue Skies
- Drey from Drey’s House
- Deidre
- Teresa W.
- Tracey B.
For a copy of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Just Shit
- Drey from Drey’s House
- Naida from The Bookworm
- Tracey B.
- Cindi
- Melanie from Cynical Optimism
Congratulations, winners were chosen using Random.org. I am sending an email to each winner, please respond by Mon. December 1st., if I don’t hear from a particular winner by then I will award the book to the next person on the list.
Book Dads is hosting a book giveaway courtesy of the Hachette Book Group.
Five lucky winners will receive a copy of either one or both of these two humorous books that are not for the easily offended.
Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete’s Handbook
Here is a full description from Hachette:
This will be the very last book you ever read. Because after you have read this book, you, Good Sir, will know how to be a pro athlete. And pro athletes don’t need books. Or strong family bonds. Or any of that stupid crap. Not when they have ready access to millions of dollars and scores of smoking hot chicks with questionable judgment.
This book will be all you require to cast aside your boring life as some jackass who cruises around bookstores hoping to score grad-school trim. With Men with Balls, you will learn how to:
- Showboat using classical pantomime techniques
- Figure out whether or not a stripper actually fancies you
- Emotionally cope from the emotional fallout of rookie year hazing games
- Find out which free locker room amphetamines will give you a shot of energy, and which will cause you to run down terrified schoolchildren with your Escalade (NOTE: Some do both)
- Avoid media scrutiny by directing beat writers and columnists to the nearest hot buffet
So grab your balls, bookboy. You’re about to become a home-run hitting, steroid-injecting, angry-orgy-having Turbostud. They’re gonna need a whole ocean just to wash your jock.
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Insanely Annoying Modern Things
Here is a full description from Hachette:
An encyclopedic attack on modern culture so hilariously bitter that it actually becomes uplifting. Based on two runaway UK bestsellers, this new American edition has been ingeniously adapted and features exclusive new material for US audiences by Brendan Hay, a former Daily Show headline producer and contributing writer to America: The Book.
If you hate chick lit, Che Guevara merchandise, pop Kabbalah, cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong-as-tv-programming, DVDs with ads you can’t skip, or any of a few hundred other insanely annoying modern things, then this book will finally lend credence to your frustrations.
Say NO to the awful ideas, terrible people, useless products, and infuriating doublespeak that increasingly dominates our lives. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit.
Clearly, it isn’t just you…
The contest ends on Tuesday, November 25th. We will announce the winners the following day.
Only residents of the U.S. or Canada are eligible to win. No P.O. Boxes please!
How to enter:
For one entry, simply leave a comment here telling us which book you’d like to win. You may request one entry for each in the same comment.
For three entries, write a post about this contest on your blog with a link back to this post. Remember to leave a comment below telling us which book or both that you would like to win. You may leave a link to your blog post in the Mr. Linky below.
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OMG I want both books cause I’m greedy like that. Just call me the Daffy Duck of the gay world. Ok here’s really why I want each:
1. Men With Balls… you can stop right there. That’s my most favorite kind of man–the ones with balls. But gosh, I guess that’s all men…Well all men are my favorite kind of men. Actually, being the kind of athlete who closes his eyes and turns his head away before attempting to catch a fly ball in a baseball game, I need/deserve this book.
2. Is It Me or Is Everything Shit? I can answer that one: NO and YES. Could my life get any shittier? I’m so broke that I’m saving lint from my clothes dryer to make into a cassarole… and yes, I am a gay man who does not know how to spell cassarole, isn’t that shitty?
See, these books belong to me…could there be any doubt?
Preston Brooks’s last blog post..This Weekend, Contests, and Daughter Does Me Proud
Ok I posted about your contest. That gets me 1004 entries, right?
Preston Brooks’s last blog post..Bood Dads Contest: Win 2 Funny Books for Guys Who Read or Should Read or Need Something To Do When Taking a Dump
Totally want “Is It Just Me…” I love funny books.
MotherReader’s last blog post..Comment Challenge: Questions & Answers
I hope to win “Is it Just Me” because you had me at UK bestseller and kept me with The Daily Show namedrop.
Christine’s last blog post..Get thee to Wordle
Consider this my enrty for:
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?:
Insanely Annoying Modern Things
Thanks… It sounds great!
Toby-O’s last blog post..Friday Finds 11/14/2008
I’d love to enter to win Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Insanely Annoying Modern Things…sounds like a good one!
thanks
bookworm’s last blog post..Romeo Romeo Winner
Would love to enter!
I’d love to be entered for “Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Insanely Annoying Modern Things by Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur with Brendan Hay” Thanks!
I could sho use sum funny stuff right bout now. LOL
Deidre
deidre_durance at hotmail dot com
These both sound great, count me in! tWarner419@aol.com
Men With Balls sounds like a great book. I have someone in mind.
I could use a laugh so either book would suit me.
Most definitely, “is it me or is everything just shit?!
I agree with most of what this books seems to say.
Many thanks, Cindi
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit just sounds too interesting of a book to pass by! Please enter me.
I would love to read Is It Me or Is Everything Shit? I often ask myself this question….no, really!
I’d love to read Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Insanely Annoying Modern Things. I could use a funny book to break the cycle of depressing books I’ve chosen lately.
Marina’s last blog post..Sunday Salon
A couple of funny books sure would help alleviate the depression that the change in seasons inevitably brings with it. Well, to me, anyway… =) Thanks for hosting the giveaway, I’m up for both. And dear hubby can read ‘em when I’m done. =D
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Oh this is awesome i would love to win Is it just me or is everything shit? Please put my name in I love a humerous read!
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Not going to sign up for the contest as I am in Denmark. Just wanted to say that I read Is it just me, or is everything shit a couple of years ago (bought it in UK) and it was simply hilarious!
Louise’s last blog post..Sunday Salon November 23, 2008
toss my name in for is it just me…..it sounds great!
melanie’s last blog post..Trader Joe’s Dinner
thank you so much!!!
bookworm’s last blog post..Happy Thanksgiving
I won! I won! Woo hoo! You like me; you really like me! (Ok, Sally Fields I’m not…) Anyway, sorry for the delayed reaction. I took a break from blogging over the Thanksgiving holidays. I hope yours was fan-tab-ulous!
Preston’s last blog post..Happy Thanksgiving
It was.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.