Customer Reviews

Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is not a book to be read immediately before or immediately after a meal.

You will learn more about the logistics of removing human waste from wilderness areas than you probably cared to know.

You may find yourself screaming in horror as you hurl this book as far as the walls of the bathroom will let you.

You will laugh and in the process, you will learn something about whitewater rafting from the stories, the diagrams, and the glossary in the back.

This is a bathroom classic. Choose your time for reading it carefully!

I first bought this book as a gag for some of the guys I work with as a river guide. I made the mistake of reading it first, and laughed so hard I cried on several of the stories. My daughters were awakened by my laughter and came to see what mom thought was so funny. We (myself and 2 daughters) shared the laughter for a little over an hour, and many times since. It is the most often asked for book at my house, and, it has gone, and will continue to go on river trips and camping trips with me. Some people gross out when the stories are read aloud, but nearly all will pick it up, read it, and laugh about it in private.

It's not often I laugh out loud when into a book, but this one'll do it. As a professional raft-guide in Colorado and Utah, my "Library" is available to all on our trips, and this one is by far the most popular with the customers. If you've used a groover once or a hundred times, you'll laugh and be grossed-out too. River-runners, put this book in your box.

I have what has been described (by my mother) as a bathroom sense of humor, so I thought I would enjoy this book. Instead, in the approximately 30 minutes it takes to read, I was rewarded with only one small chuckle. Around the campfire, well lubricated by consciousness changing substances, some of these stories could probably be a hit. On paper they are, well, boring and sophmoric. And don't think you'll be able to read them, then tell them to your friends around the campfire -- they won't translate in that sense. You're better off just making up your own stories. If you can imagine just one instance when a relatively small amount of feces ended up on your own or someone else's flesh, you already know everything this book has to offer.

Without a doubt, one of the funniest books I've ever read. I bought this book while on vacation for some light reading and I've never laughed so hard in my life. I'll agree that it's not dinner material, but it's riotous reading.

One word of caution, don't have someone read this to you while you're trying to drive!

This is a very funny book. If you are involved with river rafting or if you are taking a river trip soon, this is the book for you. The stories, although a bit gross from time to time, are all true and would be wonderful when read aloud around the campfire. I feel certain that this will be a real buy for those who have a sense of humor and adventure.

While this is not a fine piece of literature it will make you laugh out loud many times over. The stories are disgusting at times and they give you a good idea of what it must be like to be a hep river guide like this book's wacky author. It made me laugh and I recommend it highly -- especially to those of you out there that are still in touch with your third-grade toilet humor stage.

I give this book a six because the writing is sophisticated enough to make the stories funny and because I liked the last chapter of "reflections", in which the author waxes philosophical about something that is part of who we are and ought to be discussed more openly. I don't give the book a 9 or 10 because even though the stories are pretty good, they are not overwhelmingly funny, bizarre, or interesting.

Takes about thirty minutes to read the stories involving the misadventures of the crap bag. Picked up a couple good stories to share and will have more fun telling than reading so it was an okay purchase from half.com at 75 cents plus three dollars shipping.

I picked up this book as I was leaving the hiking section at the bookstore, I flipped a few pages and was laughing in the isle, its brief at 81 pages with glossary, cost more then I would normaly spend for such a book $7.95 when there is other books I would rather get but a laugh is always a good thing and you can pass it on. Learned a thing or two I guess about rafting as a bonus, worth a read if you can take a joke and don't mind being grossed out.