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May 2, 2006

The party poopers at the humor magazine The Idler -- the same bunch who filled your brain with workplace horror in Crap Jobs -- now put a damper on the beloved annual getaway with hilarious true stories of nightmare vacations. Here, in all their hideous glory, are tales of leaky caverns, dodgy campsites, and bug-infested bedrooms in "luxury" foreign hotels. We've got dysentery disasters, land-mine-littered beaches, irretrievably lost luggage, and hours of exotic tarmac-sitting at the world's top airports -- not to mention Crap Vacation sex, crime, and toxic food you pay far too much for.

So if you're making plans to get away from it all, make sure you're not going somewhere you'll want to get away from. Let Crap Vacations be your guide down that old holiday road. Getting back to the nine-to-five grind has never seemed to tempting.


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About the Author

Dan Kieran is The Idler's deputy editor and an expert on crap jobs. His mortifying resume includes weed sprayer, bank clerk, box stacker, washer-upper, hay bailer, marquee director, army kitchen porter, watercress farmer, pallet maker, and turkey beheader. He lives in England.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Harper (May 2, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060833424
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060833428
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,168,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Purely entertaining, July 11, 2006
This review is from: The Idler Book of Crap Vacations: 50 Tales of Hell on Earth (Paperback)
I picked this up in a bookstore and happened upon one of the funniest stories I've ever read. I think because the bookstore was rather swanky and the stories & profanity were so outrageous, I found myself in fits of uncontrollable laughter. I had to buy it - even paid full price for it! Not every story had me rolling, but I was totally entertained. Definitely for adults.
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2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars This book should come with a warning label, June 30, 2006
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Yikes! I left this book on the counter after I received it without looking through it and my 7year old picked it up and showed me all the dirty words she found in it! The illustrations have more profanity and sexually explicit names than an episode of the Sopranos. I bought this book after The Today Show recommended it for a good summer beach read, but obviously not if you are on vacation with your kids!!! It is supposed to be a funny book but it is just trashy and not a bit funny.
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