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The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection Hardcover – December 1, 2001

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Dutton Adult; First Edition edition (December 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0525946233
  • ISBN-13: 978-0525946236
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 7.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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105 of 112 people found the following review helpful
Recent Follies as Documented Gallows Humor
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on October 29, 2001
Format: Hardcover
If you liked The Darwin Awards, you will find this book to be another winner.
Like The Darwin Awards, let me note that if you do not find witless death and mutilation humorous, avoid this book. Three of the mutilation examples have a sexual context and are pretty gross.

If you find fatal and grisly mishaps funny, you will enjoy the book greatly. In fact, this has to be the best articulated book ever written about stupid ways to die and lose fertility. Anyone will feel smarter and better about themselves after reading these stories!
This book is about people "removing themselves from the gene pool in sublimely idiotic fashion" in “true accidental blunders.” The incidents involve ways that people “unthinkingly engineer their own downfalls, oblivious to warning signs that the rest of us automatically heed.”

The book's premise is very well framed to put you in a humorous mood. The idea is that when people do stupid things that get them killed or keep them from having children, they thus perform a service by improving the gene pool for the remaining humans. Ms. Northcutt uses many witty essays and quotes to emphasize this point, and establishes the mood well.
She has rules for these awards. To win the Darwin Award, you must (1) die or be unable to procreate after the incident, (2) show “an astounding misapplication of common sense,” (3) cause your own downfall, (4) have the ability to use sound judgment (are not too young or permanently mentally impaired) and (5) have the incident verified by someone else. If you don't meet all these tests, you can still get an honorable mention, or be described as an urban legend or a personal account.Read more ›
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
One Too Many Trips To The Well
By A Customer on January 13, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I really enjoyed the first "Darwin" installment, but Darwin II does not cut it. First of all, too much of the book is filler (author's opinions & editorializing, as well as boring discussions of evolutionary theory), and not enough awards are presented. About 40 percent of this book is chaff, with 60 percent consisting of award cases. What really upset me, however, is that of the 60 percent of this book devoted to presenting actual Darwin Awards, an entire chapter consists of repeats from the first volume! Northcutt begins this chapter by saying "here enjoy some repeats of your favorite Darwins from my first book" or words to that effect. What a consumer rip off! Why would anyone want to pay twice to read the same stories! If I hadn't already thrown my receipt away, this one would be going back to the bookstore for a full refund. What invariably happens in movie sequels is that sooner or later the producers make one too many trips to the well, and you end up with something as awful as "Jaws 3" for example. Well, the fatal trip to the well appears to have already been made with the Darwin series. Let the buyer beware.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Dumb People Do Dumb Things and Get Their Just Due
By George Buttner VINE VOICE on January 30, 2003
Format: Hardcover
The Darwin Awards II is a great book that shows just what can happen when people fail to use common sense. It's filled with well-written, cautionary tales of people who did astoundingly stupid things and paid the ultimate price: death, or in some less drastic cases, sterility.
If this were the only thing this book had, it would still be a good book. But this book offers far more than that. In addition to these tales (some certified and some not and both are clearly marked), there are Honorable Mentions (people who did stupid things but didn't pay the ultimate price, but who still might in the future) and Personal Accounts. The book is also sprinkled with the author's wisdom, applicable quotes and each chapter opens with a discussion of a topic related to the subject of the chapter. The book also integrates well with the website, where you can voice your opinion on the book or stories in it, submit new stories, or read more about a particular story in the book, or a topic related to it.
As the book says, the grimness of some of these tales makes it such that it may be that it's best read in small doses. But whether you learn something, or just laugh, you'll love The Darwin Arwards II.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not As Good as the First
By JMack VINE VOICE on October 25, 2003
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
The Second Edition of Darwin Awards is not nearly as funny as the first. It is usually the case that the sequel is a bit of a let down. This book is appropriate for its use, a book from which you can read a few pages each day.
A good addition to this book is the "Not A Darwin Award" Chapter in which the author shows stories which were unable to receive a Darwin Award for various reason. If nothing else, this demonstrates the logic behind the awards. The book has many entertaining stories which demonstrate that there are a lot of stupid people in the world. It is all the more reason for the intelligent ones like us to be careful.
My strongest objection to this book was chapter of recycled classic stories from the first edition. I would prefer to read new stories rather than ones I have already read. If somebody has not ready those stories, they really should buy the first edition. The second edition is also worth the price.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Ya' gotta love this stuff!
By John Nipps on December 24, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Seldom have such valuable lessons been so enjoyable to learn. The stories contained within this book and its predecessor ("Darwin Awards") are not only amusing, but valuable.
As a school teacher I find that a brief story selected from within these books shared with the class periodically is not only enjoyable for all concerned, but can help instruct the students to use some minimal amount of reason in their daily endeavors.
I find the quote contained in Northcut's first book to be the among the wisest things ever spoken; "Only two things are infinite -- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe." Albert Einstein. Those words say it all, and Northcut has collected sundry examples to verify the accuracy of them in a delightful manner.
Buy two copies -- one for yourself and one for a friend.
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