Customer Reviews

What's Your Poo Telling You?

5 star:		(55)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This book is hysterical, yet educational too! I got it for my 10 year old son for his birthday. Bathroom humor is always a hit with boys. He read the book aloud during a road trip and we were all in stitches, laughing. It's sooo funny and you do learn a thing or two about #2!

I just finished reading this book cover to cover. The only time I set it down was to wipe away the tears from side-splitting laughter. The chapter on "sneak attack" poos and the "hanging chad" poos made me burst into laughter so hard that several of my work colleagues came by to see what was going on. The book combines great advice, accurate descriptions and solid medical medical reasoning for each type of poo. No longer will I wonder why my poo is the way it is. Great, fun book and perfect for a quick bathroom read.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who thinks poo is funny. But this book is SO HILARIOUS that everyone who sees it can't stop talking about poo. It's fantastic! I also learned a lot about poo because of the excellent commentary by the M.D. I bet that the author Josh Richman was in some kind of weird fraternity hazing ritual to think this much about poo--even though I'm no frat boy I think everyone will love this book!!!

I found this book to be different than what I thought it would be. This book is humorous but was much more light weight and skimpy than I imagined. The explanations for each section were pretty short. The whole book, itself, was very short and small. It's less than 100 pages and those pages are full of pictures and relatively large fonts.

It's almost like a child's book. It is entertaining and contains some nice information, but would I pay for it again? Probably not at this price. If it was under $5, maybe. If you can get it at a library, you can finish it in less than 30 minutes. Useful and funny stuff, but it was too light weight for me so I am not sure it's worth the money.

--This book is small in size. I was expecting a little bigger. It measures about 6 1/4" long by 4 3/4" wide, and almost 1/2"wide. 95 pages.
I guess it's better at this size because it fits on the top of the toilet tank for easy reading!

--Very funny with each type of poo hilariously described in 1/2 to 1 page of text. After that, the MD describes in 1/2 of a page of more serious description of the how's and why's.
There are simple outline drawings on every other page or so

--Scattered throughout are some "did you know's?" and "nuggets". Interesting facts, but by no means doctor-grade, hard-to-understand info.
Very funny and cute book.

I purchased this book as a gag gift for my brother's 50th birthday (along with other senior citizen refuse items) and when I received it I couldn't believe how small it was. Normally I would never read a book before giving it to someone but this could be read in a matter of minutes. I found the book to be simple (which is good especially if you don't want big scientific words) and somewhat humorous. Not laugh-out-loud funny as some people think. The information was worth reading though. I don't recall my parents ever giving the "your different stools mean this..." speech. I learned a few things and now I'm aware of the health of my home through the inspection of the garbage.

There is humor and wisdom in the pages of this little book, but it really isn't outrageous or edgy, and not that informative. There are lots of alliterative nicknames for poo that are very clever, but the authors play it way too safe to make this book much fun to read. There's got to be something funnier, yet still useful. But if you want highbrow poo comedy, you might like this.

Great way to learn about the subject -- lots of information. Some of it is humorous; some of it "tries too hard" to be funny; and some of it is repetitive.

This is an excellent book, well written, informative, with a great sense of humor. It's not your common topic and you'll need to be somewhat earthy to come to an understanding.
As it turns out my wife works for a group of Gastroenterologist and I bought this book for their office. They all enjoyed the book very much.

Jam-packed with scatological satire; dense with sophmoric humor; crammed full of fecal euphemisms, this comedic book will have you chuckling, whether you find it on a coffee table or tucked away next to a commode. (Have fun, leave a copy in your friend's bathroom and place a couple check marks in the table of contents.)

With a sly wink the book camoflages its MAD magazine lineage by highlighting medical facts co-authored by Anish Sheth, M.D., a gastroenterology assistant professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

No doubt Sheth is responsible for such passages as "abdominal distension" and "indigestible polysaccharides." However, for every medical term shared co-author Josh Richman's introduces a litany of bowel movement euphemisms, such as "The Green Goblin," "Log Jam" and the "Ring of Fire."

If you're looking for a more serious take on the topic consider Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product. If you want to share a giggle with your kids, grab a copy of Taro Gomi's wonderful picture book Everyone Poops. And don't forget The Mad Bathroom Companion: The Gushing Fourth Edition, too.

In summary, "What's Your Poo Telling You?" is a quick, fun read; rating: four stars.