The Long Miserable Nights Will Just Fly By With This Book! Reads like a hate list out of a manic depressive's diary.

^^ I have to say that this is one book where only a negative review will do! It's gloomy, depressing, bleak as the bowels of Hell itself, and oddly funny because of it, even though all it amounts to is a list of 11,002 Things to be Miserable about. Rather a clever idea, which I liked, but I am not sure it's everyone's idea of fun. It's bizarre, and reads like a hate list out of a manic depressive's diary, but is strangely addictive.

^^ I like the look of this book, it's short, fat and mainly black, with grey edges and a white miserable
smiley face. With 448 pages, it is thicker than I expected.

^^ Although there isn't much to it content wise, (it is just a list after all) 11,002 Things to be Miserable About is a handy book to have on your coffee table, a quirky stocking filler for that grumpy young or old person in your life, antipsychotic medication, and an easy read to pick up whenever your abysmal life needs a shot of satirical wretched wit. It had me laughing so much it reduced me to tears.

^^ Sitting on a tack, self-so*omy with broomsticks, photographs of places you'll never go to, and knowing that tomorrow will be just as terrible as it was today - are prime examples of the kind of miserableness you'll find here. Incidentally, I have to wonder what life is like in the husband and wife Lia and Nick Romeo household. Bet there's always something for this dismal duo of authors to moan about!

Overall: Finally a book that not only makes you feel more miserable than you were, but
one that gives even more reasons to end it all. The book, that is... ( )

Making it 11,003 things to be miserable about, one can add the size of this little volume, fat it may be, but it otherwise will sit comfortably in ones hand, so small it is. But is imaginatively produced with each page heavily bordered in black rather like a funeral invitation. It consists simple of one line, occasionally two line, statements of things to be miserable about. One or two caught eye immediately: Learning that centipedes don't have one hundred legs, Too tight thongs, Ready family dinners for one (I think I remembered that one correctly, see below), Castration, Receiving mouthwash as a gift, and some things you probably never thought about: Thin squirrels who won't survive the winter, Long range arrows, Carrying water in a sieve.

Maybe I should add one more thing to be miserable about, Not being able to find again that absolute gem you spotted on this book, the 11,002 things appear in no particular order. It certainly make for amusing browsing (I can't really imagine sitting down to read this cover to cover), with some things you'll find yourself nodding furiously in agreement with, occasionally having a silent chuckle over, maybe at times laughing out loud; but also occasionally having a flush of embarrassment as you realise that this particular 'thing' apples to you! ( )

Not overly concerned about the near-depression economy? The war in Iraq not got you down? Worry over the precarious housing market not keeping you awake at night? Don't feel as if every work day might find you walking out with a final paycheck? Just generally finding yourself content with your day to day life?

Don't worry--not about your lack of worries, at least--Lia and Nick Romeo have found 11,002 things for you to be miserable about. From the first entry (Death) to the last (Happiness), this brother and sister team has found plenty of things to help keep your state of mind gloomy, day in and day out. Thought about the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson lately? How about impotence? What, these are too mundane for you? Okay, here's one: the plight of the American South during Reconstruction.

Conceived as an antidote to the sweet optimism of 14, 000 Things to be Happy About, 11,002 Things to be Miserable About gets the job done...and then some.

Hey--have a nice day. ( )