Should You Be Laughing at This?

by Hugleikur Dagsson

Book Overview

Hugleikur Gagsson's Should You Be Laughing at This? has achieved revered cult status and taken the Icelandic publishing world by storm. Of course, Iceland is a country whose national drink is called "Black Death," national dish is putrefied shark meat, and national literacy rate is 99.9%. That may give you a small idea of the dark but brilliant mind behind the shamefully addicting cartoons in this book. From the absurd to the offensive to the immoral,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061284890
• ISBN13: 9780061284892
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Best bathroom reader of all time

This book is for the slightly demented. Being slightly to highly demented, I loved it. If you enjoy jokes about incest, murder, cannibalism, sex, and just about every sin imaginable, I highly recommend it.

One of the funniest books there is

If you find this book even remotely funny then you are a sick twisted individual, frankly I think its hilarious! If you have even the slightest sense of humour you will love this book.

Crude, Dark, Hilarious!

I came across this book in B & N while looking for a little lovey-dovey book to send in a package to my girlfriend as she travels for work. I saw the red cover and the size and thought it might fit the bill. Then I opened it and immediately let out a bark of laughter. I didn't bother finding a seat, I just flipped to the beginning and read the whole thing in the aisle. I ended up buying it there, but it's not going in her package! This book contains some of the most twisted ideas imaginable presented by these seemingly harmless little cartoons. Believe me, nothing is left off the table. This book is for the people who can find humor in anything. If you're easily offended or have ever attended a book burning, steer clear.

Great book!

If you love purposely-poorly-drawn comics with a brilliantly twisted sense of humour like I do (a la "Cyanide and Happiness"), you'll love this little book.

Crude, rude, awful, and hilarious!

I have rarely seen a more accurate title (the only better one would be the title already taken by a National Lampoon album, called "That's Not Funny, That's Sick!"). This book is not for the faint of heart: it includes cruelty to children (and their parents), awful deaths, sex in the wrong place at the wrong time, to mention but the tip of the iceberg-- and yet surprisingly you may find yourself laughing at all of it. Much of it is incredibly twisted, and not in the way we Americans think of the term either. Dagsson, and for that matter Iceland, deserves an internationally recognized award in the twisted department. Great book. Don't leave it out where your relatives will find it, unless they're as sick as you are.