Talk:The Book of Heroic Failures

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

"The barges down in the river flop"
I have only read the sequel, so I can't vouch for this book. In its current form, Wikipedia's article does a good job of describing the book's release, but there's very little about the actual contents, other than that it is a "celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms". From what I remember, the sequel was a mixture of articles about newspaper clippings - usually involving incompetent bank robbers - and original descriptions of bad poets, failed operas etc. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, not true. I own both books and they both use the same format. They are both, incidentally, the funniest books I've ever read. - 210.80.189.226 (talk) 05:19, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the current description doesn't make it clear whether the book is a novel, an autobiography, a list, a how-to guide, a compendium of paintings, or what. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:42, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * All of the above, except the compendium of paintings. - 122.106.12.222 (talk) 14:59, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

first edition is not heroic
I have a first edition of this book which I bought new. The title is "The (incomplete) book of failures" subtitle "the official handbook of the not-terribly-good club of Great Britain". The word "HEROIC" does not appear anywhere on the cover, which you can see a picture of at Amazon, here. --Charlie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.153.180.229 (talk) 21:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * After four years, the original anonymous poster has probably disappeared. Ah well. This is almost certainly the title of the USA edition. The way to check would be to look on the copyright page of the book where it will give its publication history. 74.205.219.217 (talk) 05:07, 10 July 2018 (UTC)