How To Survive Your 40Th Birthday: The Complete Guide to Getting the Care You Need--And Avoiding Problems You Don't [Paperback]

Bill Dodds (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1990

Here's a great gag gift for anyone turning 40!

How To Survive Your 40th Birthday is a perfect gift for thirty-nine-year-olds dreading the Big Four 40. It provides reassurance that there's more to life after forty: old age and death. And it's chock fun of off-the-wall advice that can come in very handy when you turn forty, including:

• How to act surprised at your surprise 40th birthday party

• How to tell the difference between a mid-life crisis and a hangover

• How to raise a family without raising your blood pressure

• How to find your lost youth without hurting yourself

• How to get through your high-school reunion without lying about your job

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Meadowbrook (October 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671725610
• ISBN-13: 978-0671725617
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > Self-Help & Psychology
  • #60 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States > History & Criticism

More About the Author

Bill Dodds has been writing since the age of six when . . .

No, wait. That was printing. And he got Ds in that.

He started writing in . . .

No, wait. That was cursive. And, again, his grades were not stellar.

Ah, but creative writing . . . ! After his blockbuster first novel, "The Christmas Ball" (written in the first or second grade), he . . .

Well, what he did was write only for school assignments and never read ten books from the library for the summer reading program. Ever. No certificate for him.

After he was sent to prison . . .

No, wait.

After he went to boarding school at the tender age of fourteen he started to read more (pre-Internet days and only one non-cable TV set in the entire building) and started to write more.

No, wait.

He had some great teachers in grade school and high school and college who helped him learn how to write, how to write better, and how to write professionally.

He has cranked out a lot of books, like making so many pounds of sausages.

No, wait.

He is a prolific writer.

Ooh. That sounds good.

Stop here, Bill.

Stop, stop, stop.

No wait.

Buy some of his books.

Good.

Now stop.

Customer Reviews

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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 40th B-Day book, February 21, 2008

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This review is from: How To Survive Your 40Th Birthday: The Complete Guide to Getting the Care You Need--And Avoiding Problems You Don't (Paperback)

The book arrived in great condition! It is funny... I would recommend it for "light" humor as someone is nearing 40.