Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends andScare Your Neighbors [Paperback]

Tom Nardone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2007

Pumpkins are supposed to be scary!

Based on his popular and addictive website ExtremePumpkins.com, Tom Nardone has created a full-color guide to pumpkin carving that's truly frightening. Featuring the website's signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to Electrocuted Pumpkin and other never-before-seen designs, this gleefully gory guide is nothing short of a manifesto to take back Halloween from the cheerful, the cutesy, and the parent-sanctioned. For the egg-throwing, toilet tissue- streaming, window-soaping teenager in all of us, finally- a whole new way to celebrate October 31.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tom Nardone is the creator of the popular website extremepumpkins.com. He lives in Michigan with his long-suffering wife and their three children, where he runs an internet company.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: HP Trade (September 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557885222
• ISBN-13: 978-1557885227
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #645,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

It all began in 1999 when Tom Nardone carved a puking pumpkin and put it on the Internet. ExtremePumpkins.com was born. Each year Nardone has worked to expand the art of Pumpkin Carving and Halloween misbehaving. So far, he has written 3 books on the subject. His latest work, Extreme Halloween was released in September, 2009 and it includes all sorts of crazy ideas for having Halloween fun.

Tom Nardone is not quite 40 years old. He lives in the suburbs of Detroit with his 3 children and wonderful wife.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dude....this book is totally freakin' awesome, September 10, 2007

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Rachael Buckay - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends andScare Your Neighbors (Paperback)

Not only has this book enabled me to hold onto my position as the neighborhood maniac, it has given me new insight on how to carve pumpkins more efficiently, spookily, and with greater ease. Mr. Nardone is quite the cut up, and this book made me chuckle unendingly. The directions are simple, the layout is handy, and I find the photographs both detailed and quite artistic.

p.s. This book is also quite inexpensive, so buying multiples of it doesn't pinch my pocketbook! Yowza!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book by Halloween and carve the coolest pumpkins in your neighborhood, October 18, 2007

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Karen and Craig (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends andScare Your Neighbors (Paperback)

This is the most creative, creepy and hilarious example of the pumpkin carving art ever published. We pay homage by stealing Tom's ideas: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? If only we could wield a reciprocating saw with the same artistic precision.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Halloween!, December 12, 2007

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J. Burnett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends andScare Your Neighbors (Paperback)

I love this book! Not only are the pumpkin carving ideas amazing, but the guy has great suggestions with a good sense of humor. My only regret was that I ordered it late in October and I didn't get the book in time to pursue some of the projects for Halloween night. But it sure made for a great table book and conversation piece at my little Halloween get together. Next year we'll be ready to take some of these on! The photos are wonderful and we all cracked up, deciding which pumkin extravaganza was our favorite. So if you're seriously into having some Halloween creativity and fun, get this little book.

FUNNY!