Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions [Paperback]

Joshua Piven (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2007

From the bestselling author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: the ultimate guide to making impossible choices.

Which would be worse to notice on your dentist's hand: flesh eating bacteria or leprosy? Who would be worse to find in your slipper: a Black Widow spider or a giant centipede? Which would you rather discover in your backyard: a West Nile mosquito or a West African dictator?

Skim or whole milk? Aisle or window seat? Easy. Don Corleone or Darth Vader as your father? Not so much. Welcome to the pinnacle of lose-lose decision-making, courtesy of the bestselling author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. In Bad vs. Worse, readers are presented with a series of impossible choices, as well as the facts, figures, stats, and tips they need to make a decision when the only choices are worse or "worser." Rats or Rambo? Neanderthals or ninjas? In Bad vs. Worse, readers will get to decide between a very big rock and a really hard place.

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About the Author

Joshua Piven is the author of the bestselling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; HUMOU edition (October 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399533664
• ISBN-13: 978-0399533662
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,738,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, live life on the edge in the wilds of Philadelphia.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, June 13, 2010

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Miss_slytherin "Meaghan" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions (Paperback)

I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend for his birthday and he thought it was really funny. Arrive on time and in perfect condition.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars almost perfect, October 23, 2009

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Lynn's Friend (Fort Wayne, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions (Kindle Edition)

This book was great, very funny and thought-provoking. I stood in the library aisle giggling and I think I was getting some funny looks from other patrons. :)

I have only one issue with it. I realize that not eveyone can be a Barry Manilow fan like me (ever since 1996 when I was sixteen), but everyone who dissects his music seems to make one error in common. Calling the title "I Write the Songs" a misnomer because he didn't actually write that song is incorrect and missing the whole message of the song. He is not singing, "I, Barry, write the songs." He is saying, "I, music, write the songs." He is using a literary device called personification to say some things about music in general. Heaven knows that Barry has been around a long time :), but I don't think anyone could say that he's been alive literally "forever," as the first phrase of the song goes. Music has been alive forever. Music wrote the very first song. Music has its own place in our souls. See what I'm saying? Hopefully I'm making sense.

Anywho, though, a delightful read.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Welcome to the pinnacle of lose-lose decision making.", November 20, 2007

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This review is from: Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions (Paperback)

Joshua Paven, the author of The Worst Case Scenario, presents readers with an agonizing selection of awful, disgusting and awfully disgusting choices to make in life situations. (Hopefully, not your life or mine!)

Ponder, if you would, the following: Which would be worse to notice on your dentist's hand, flesh-eating bacteria or leprosy? Who would you rather listen to nonstop on a fifteen hour road trip, Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond? Which would be worse, an appendicitis or an audit? Who would you rather have as a camp counselor, Dick Cheney or Osama Ben Laden?

Buy this book and you'll be sure to make these horrible decisions and worse in a responsible and informed manner.