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The Good the Spam and the Ugly

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Like most people, my inbox has been flooded with hundreds of email spam offers to split millions of dollars with complete strangers who happened to randomly select me to share in their bounty. Not being a complete idiot, I have never fallen for these spam scammers, but they are an irritating waste of time none the less. How sweet it is to see someone as wickedly funny as Steve H. Graham take them on and best them!

Mr. Graham has a knack for writing fiendishly clever responses to the inquiries that keep the scammers coming back for more, while delighting the reader with the sheer ingenuity of the communications from the invented potential victims. I highly recommend this book.

Mr. Graham has had a running battle with the 419 spammers, and we are lucky enough to get to read along. The author has a warped, skewed look on life, and I mean that in the best possible way. Watch as he has the spammers tying themselves into knots. Highly recommended.

I really enjoyed this book. The humor was unique and rib-tickling. Go out and buy it !

Did you know that this book was not written on a Mac? I took Steve to task for it. "Buy a Mac," I'd say, over and over again. But here it is, in all its glory, even though it is written on a Windows word processor. Shameful. The book itself, all 254 pages of it, is hilarious and worth every one of those one thousand thirty six pennies it costs. Buy it, please, so he can finally afford a Mac...

If you recently saw the recent video on YouTube about some guy convincing a couple of spammers to film themselves doing the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, you may think it was Mr. Graham behind the prank. It could be. Even funnier is an entire book filled with the sweet revenge Steve H. Graham takes out on the spammers with the insanely funny email pranks he thinks up to pull these guys chains. A howlingly enjoyable and entertaining read.

Be sure to pick up his cookbook as well, "Eat What You Want And Die Like A Man," which unsurprisingly has some absolutely wonderful recipes for fantastic dishes you're unlikely to find in your local foo-foo restaurant. Mr. Graham is one of the good guys. Go ahead, click that button and put it in your cart. You'll be glad you did.

The Publishers Weekly review above is on the money, in that this book is gleefully offensive.

I'm fine with that.

If you're fine with that as well, this book will make you snort with laughter at inappropriate times. Do not read while sitting in bed next to your sleeping spouse. She will eventually punch you in the chest for waking her up.

It'll be worth the bruise.

This was one of the funniest books I have enjoyed in a long, long time. The content is fun and light and makes for an easy read. There were times I had tears in my eyes and pain in my stomach from laughing so hard. It's an excellent book for when you need a break from this mad, mad, world.

It's one of those purchases you won't regret.

Highly recommended!

A laugh-riot from start to finish--the funniest book I've read in years.

I have embarassed myself no-end by reading this while commuting. You cannot giggle so much without being regarded as drunk. Keep it for within four walls. It's a comedy gem.

Who would have thought annoying crooks and swindlers would be so entertaining?

Through the good offices of Stephanie Hopkins, her hapless brother Steve Hopkins, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, and other assorted aliases, Mr. Graham has done the Lord's work in giving back to the 419 spammers a small portion of what they've given us.

From the Candide-like adventures of Barney Rubble to the pervasive randiness of Stephanie Hopkins, the common thread is the stupefying gullibility of the spammers, willing to swallow most any story in their scramble for cash. Mr. Graham plays on that credulity like Rubenstein playing a Steinway, drawing laughs and chuckles in large measure from the reader (though likely not from the victims of his pointed wit).