Chicken Poop for the Soul: Stories to Harden the Heart and Dampen the Spirit
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Book Overview
Ruthlessly hilarious, this is the world's first "sin-spirational" book, a parody guide absolutely guaranteed never to be an Oprah's Book Club selection. Is "Chicken Soup" Too Sweet for Your Soul? When you take the road less traveled, do you get lost? When bad things happen to other people, do you feel good? Do self-help books make you feel selfish and helpless? Congratulations, you're one of us. Welcome to the farthest side of reality--and the first collection of stories sure to harden your heart and dampen your spirit. Chicken Poop for the Soul Here is the story of "Step-Mother Teresa" who turned an orphanage in Calcutta into a sweatshop...and "The True Meaning of Love," romance as seen from a stalker's point of view. Explore the positive side of feeling bad in "The Joys of Depression." Learn the code of the urban teacher who vows "I will never respond to a student's demands, no matter how outrageous, with the phase 'Over my dead body.'" Read the multimillion-dollar government study that discovered that the primary cause of anxiety in America is government studies. And, finally, learn the true secret of happiness.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0671014420
ISBN13:9780671014421
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:Gallery Books
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
FUNNY!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
For those of you down in the dumps, this is a good book to look at and poke fun at yourself and your problems. I gave this as a tongue-in-cheek book, and the results were hilarious.
Cheered me up more than the chicken soup books
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Now, here is something that truly made me laugh and feel good about things, as opposed to those wretched chicken soup books, filled with cancer, car accidents, and other such things that leave the reader feeling as though she should jump off an overpass onto the highway because she has not suffered as others. Seriously though, I'm not disparaging the Soup books. I'm just saying that this one made me laugh more and put me in a better mood than the other ones. And as for the reader who decided that this mocks the word of God, I'd like more information about the church whose gospel consists of an old, hand copied edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul...
A lifesaver for those in the hospital
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I have just finished a four-week stay in the hospital after a disastrous accident. A friend brought me this book as my first get-well present. This book should be distributed at hospitals to all incoming patients. By the end of the week all the nurses wanted copies. Terminal patients roared with laughter as they and I recalled some of the wickeder stories. My cracked ribs hurt when I laughed but this book was better than painkillers. And I want to state that it is great for the morale--and certain other conditions one has in hospital. This book is better than flowers or candy! My mother was redfaced and in hysterics when reading the "True Meaning of Love" my personal fave along with the tale of the Dear Old Dad.Thank you thank you dear author, for offering an antidote to the sweetsie neatsie stuff that does no good at all when you are really ill...
Stories to Harden the heart and dampen the spirit
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book is so funny and it was desperatly needed considering the avalanche of Chicken Soup books. Everybody I know laughed as soon as they saw and read the title. Buy this book!
best book i ever read.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
this book is so twisted. it's way up there on my "books that rule" list. actually, it's the top book.
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