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Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks

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This book is completely un-useable! I wanted a book I could use to play pranks on my friends and enemies - this publication contains "crimes" which no one in their right mind would endeavor to achieve without ending up in the can. It seems like Hayduke wrote it because there is a lack of "practical joke" books on the market and he knew it would sell regardless of the content - which is inane and mindless. An example of a totally ridiculous one is spreading some "human feces" on bread and feeding someone a [pooh] sandwhich. This is about as good as the book gets - and who is going to try that one?! I'm so upset that I actually purchased this God-awful book.

Advice for all you pranksters - If you must buy a book in order to learn practical jokes you can actually "play" get The Prankster's Ultimate Handbook by Erik Buckman. The gags within are all playable, enjoyable and it is truly a very funny read as well.

Like the other Hayduke books, whatever relevance this one may have had has long since passed. Pretty much outdated and useless, and not even very entertaining. Go with Victor Santoro instead.

The book is extremely helpful in revenge techniques but sometimes what he suggests goes too far and could end up killing your 'mark'. Don't take everything word for word. Understand the spirit of the trick and not nessesarily the actual dirty trick. It was still a great book

Personally i have bought the book and found most of the information pretty funny, And i have been reading some of the other reviews and it irritates me of how people are trying to buy the book for Practical jokes to play on their friends, well think of your own jokes hows that? Hayduke specifically says in the book "However, the tricks, scams, stunts, cons, and scenarios presented here are done solely for informational and amusement purposes only" and he goes on like that and even suggests a book for actual practical jokes. Granted this book is not useful for finding ways to prank your friends/enemies, but it is quite the entertaining read.

my dad just gave me this book and the part two. i spent all day laughing at his ideas... of course it's not meant for you to do [most] of the things in it, it's a book... calm down! however! it's very entertaining, and yeah some of the stuff you can get away with. if you have a sick mind, or are on the cruel side, this book and it's 2nd part are a must buy!!!!!!

This is a great book. There are only two parts that are out of date and those are 1)Buying m-80's 2)Using foreign coins in pop machines (tried it already) the rest are incredibly well written down and in detail. Alot of them i have either heard other guys talk about or red them online (with no credit to the author.)

IT worked so well, my ex is afraid of my shadow, and I love it! And he said HE was going to make MY life a living h-e-double hockey sticks!

After fighting in a War that took the lives of dozens of my friends and everyone hated me for participating in, I left the Military in 1978 and had to regain my footing in a Nation of changed values. I was angry and frustrated. After reading "Get Even...." in 1980, I was ready to get some payback. Fortunately a kind WWII Veteran and business owner saw what I was going through and hired me at a good wage. After 30 years of working in a highly technical field, I saw the old "Get Even.." in print again and had to buy it. After reading it I had to chuckle at myself for even contemplating "getting even" with anybody using these techniques. It was a very innovative, imaginative, and interesting book to published at the time and still a fun read. Why not, we had just elected a California movie star to be the President of the United States!

I think this book is pretty entertaining but not the best. I read books like this all the time and notice that lots of these so called pranks are from there. -Crazy P

Well, I haven't but it sounds good