The Darwin Awards, Vol. 5, Wendy Northcutt
The Darwin Awards, Vol. 5, Wendy Northcutt
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The Darwin Awards, Vol. 5
volume 5

Author: Wendy Northcutt

Narrator: Julie Schaller, Patrick Lawlor

Abridged: 3 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/03/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor


Synopsis

The Darwin Awards: Next Evolution commemorates those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory! The author has appeared in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The (NY) Daily News, Boston Herald, Publisher Weekly, BookPage and CNN.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by May

After about 30 minutes of listening to this audiobook, I had enough. I was expecting huge laughs but what I found myself doing was the occasional smirk and a lot of head shaking. There is only so much of laughing at someone else' stupidity before you realize it's actually not that funny anymore espe......more

Goodreads review by Heather

Darwin Awards are awarded posthumously to those who remove themselves from the gene pool in a way that makes you go “a lot of beer must have gone into that one.” The Darwin Awards Next Evolution describes the final acts of several people as well as things done by at risk survivors. The vignettes are......more

Goodreads review by Sean

The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool is yet another entry in Wendy Northcutt's series of humorous books. A Darwin Award is an honor the author bestows on those of the human race who end their lives in spectacularly stupid ways, usually by some sort of fatal misjudgment or lac......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

I've read the Darwin Awards since I started getting emails about them way back in college. Over the years, I've gotten some of the best laughs of my life from the Darwin Awards. Now they have a website that's updated pretty regularly, but I've never seen a book about them. It caught my eye in the li......more