Fast Track to Failure: A User's Guide to Abject Misery

By Gareth Harvey

Book Overview

An amusing look at how to take life's major decisions and screw them up completely, how to recognize success and avoid it, and how to be out when opportunity knocks. All people fail - some more than others - but people only discuss success. Incredibly bad advice given throughout.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0207178305
• ISBN13: 9780207178306
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

THIS is a Comedic Treasure Trove

"Fast Track To Failure a user's guide to abject misery" (1993) is HUGELY hilarious. As Heinlein's character noted in 'Stranger In A Strange Land', humor is all based on a 'terrible-wrongness'. If that's true, then therein lies the root of where the laughter is found in 'FastTrack'. Seriously, this book is FUNNY! 174 pages and everyone of them has some outrageous premise or idea that grabs you like a kind of comedic-roadkill at which you can't help but look. 'Fast Track...' is fascinating and poignant at the same time. Even the preface by Amis E. Rabelman is a genuine guffaw-generator. If you like Robert Klein, the comedian, you'll LOVE Gareth Harvey as we can all relate to the common situations in which the humor is found. And, like Klein, Harvey's sense of humor simultaneously operates on many levels. 'FastTrack To Failure' holds the hallowed place on my shelf as 'Funniest Book I Own' Thank you Mr. Harvey for this WONDERFUL reflection of what it is to be human. If there's an Australian complement to Dave Barry then Gareth Harvey is the heir obvious - and I'm not making this up.