'...Before You Die' Books

[threebikesmcginty]

There's hundreds of these titles around, I've always managed to avoid buying one up until I bought Tim Webb and Joris Pattyn's book '100 Belgian Beers To Try Before You Die' - it was on offer and anyway I'm treating it more as '100 Belgian Beers to try Before You're Completely Pissed'.

List books can get a bit daft and they're often lazy, the title certainly is now there's so many of them.

These titles almost give the impression there are folk ticking off items from lists before they can finally shuffle off knowing their life is complete.

And unless there's one called '100 Things to do after you Die', such as decompose or be scattered, they're all going to be things to do, see, hear, etc. before you die!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Have a look at the "First Draughts" cartoon in the latest issue of Private Eye. Let's see if I can find a link ...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

No, I can't. Never mind.

 

[beanzontoast]

I'd get rather worried if I was working through a list of '100 books to read before you die' and I'd just finished book number 99!

 

[Melvil]

My favourite is "100 poisons to try before you die" - it's on the bookshelf next to "100 capital punishments to try before you die".

 

[Rhythm Thief]

In the book "101 things to do before you die", the obvious one - call for help - never even made the list.

 

[numbnuts]

The Bible you may get a trick question at the pearly gates

 

[rich p]

I went to the bookshop with my Welsh mate and politely said, "After you, Dai"

 

[Globalti]

100 Greatest Cycling Climbs in the UK is pretty good but the author doesn't stipulate whether or not you need to die after you've completed them all.

Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Greates...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294664524&sr=8-1

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

101 Facts You Didn't Know About The Tour De France.

'Fraid to say that I DID know some of them though, seeing as I had just finished reading Chris Sidwell's book, A Race For Madmen.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

the one in this thread has provided me with some entertainment and education. wouldn't mind the belgian beer one though.

 

[vernon]

My favourite is "100 poisons to try before you die" - it's on the bookshelf next to "100 capital punishments to try before you die".

My local library wouldn't let me take them out. They reckoned I wouldn't bring them back.

 

[ComedyPilot]

1 thing to do before you die.......live

 

[Zoiders]

Meh...an interesting book would be "things to do when you find out you have less than a year to live".

 

[Fab Foodie]

I like going into the local library and asking if they have a book entitled 'How to cope with rejection without killing'.