All My Friends Are Dead (All my friends... #1)
An amusing and captivating tale that's a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable: If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud, illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life.
From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents hilariously entertaining stories about life and existential predicaments.
The simple yet effective imagery, the personification of inanimate objects, and short, hilarious quips come together to create an amusing adventure through each character's unique grievance and wide-eyed dilemmas.
Written by Avery Monsen, an actor, artist, and writer and Jory John, a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.
All My Friends Are Dead is both the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read.
Children's book written for adults
Displayed in an accessible cartoon form
My daughter asked for this for her 21st birthday. Of course, I peeked . . . okay, I'm lying, I read the entire thing in about 10 minutes. This is, in essence, a book for existential children . . . or child existentialists . . . or cynical adults who don't like to read but like grim humor in the form of a children's book. If Sartre had had children (did he? I don't know, but I suspect not), he would have read this to them at bedtime every night. Because any night could be your last . . . PS: I
I know, I know...only one measly star to classics like A Farewell to Arms, The Bell Jar, and A Separate Peace, and just three stars to The Waste Land?And now this?!?Don't try and shame me. I feel bad enough about it already.Some times I think I'd like to live forever...But just look at this sad dinosaur...all his friends are dead.And no one even calls him a "Brontosaurus" anymore.And what about this old guy?Maybe he reminds you of the old poet of Sonnet 30 who laments "precious friends hid in
This is a funny book about people with no friends because of several reasons: meteors, age, lonely jobs, Internet, death.I felt sorry for all the characters but especially for this tree. I mean, look at it, a lonely piece of wood whose only companion is a bunch of indifferent leaves. Not even birds' nests. He turned into a coffee table and, surrounded by hundreds of objects in some house, still had no friends.It seems when you're desperate to connect with people, you become some sort of friend
Short, funny, but I doubt you read it again. Goes well as a present "additive" (so as your main present doesn't look that small).But I am glad that not all my friends are dead.
A dinosaur says all it's friends are dead. Then a baker says all his friends are bread. Then a zombie says all his friends are undead. I'm surprised they missed so many other hilarious opportunities. How about a pencil saying all it's friends are lead? Or what about a tired guy saying all my friends are beds? You could have a native saying all my friends are red. Or even Colonel Kurtz, sitting on a throne of decapitated bodies, saying all my friends are heads. Sometimes this book will mix up the
Cute and quick picture story. I think my favorite is the fly. Hilarious!
Avery Monsen
Hardcover | Pages: 96 pages Rating: 4.21 | 25175 Users | 1812 Reviews
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Original Title: | All My Friends Are Dead |
ISBN: | 0811874559 (ISBN13: 9780811874557) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | All my friends... #1 |
Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2010) |
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"Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." - The Huffington PostAn amusing and captivating tale that's a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable: If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud, illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life.
From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents hilariously entertaining stories about life and existential predicaments.
The simple yet effective imagery, the personification of inanimate objects, and short, hilarious quips come together to create an amusing adventure through each character's unique grievance and wide-eyed dilemmas.
Written by Avery Monsen, an actor, artist, and writer and Jory John, a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.
All My Friends Are Dead is both the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read.
Children's book written for adults
Displayed in an accessible cartoon form
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Title | : | All My Friends Are Dead (All my friends... #1) |
Author | : | Avery Monsen |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
Published | : | June 30th 2010 by Chronicle Books |
Categories | : | Humor. Fiction. Childrens. Picture Books. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 25175 Users | 1812 ReviewsCrit Based On Books All My Friends Are Dead (All my friends... #1)
i just read it that is why i am latesMy daughter asked for this for her 21st birthday. Of course, I peeked . . . okay, I'm lying, I read the entire thing in about 10 minutes. This is, in essence, a book for existential children . . . or child existentialists . . . or cynical adults who don't like to read but like grim humor in the form of a children's book. If Sartre had had children (did he? I don't know, but I suspect not), he would have read this to them at bedtime every night. Because any night could be your last . . . PS: I
I know, I know...only one measly star to classics like A Farewell to Arms, The Bell Jar, and A Separate Peace, and just three stars to The Waste Land?And now this?!?Don't try and shame me. I feel bad enough about it already.Some times I think I'd like to live forever...But just look at this sad dinosaur...all his friends are dead.And no one even calls him a "Brontosaurus" anymore.And what about this old guy?Maybe he reminds you of the old poet of Sonnet 30 who laments "precious friends hid in
This is a funny book about people with no friends because of several reasons: meteors, age, lonely jobs, Internet, death.I felt sorry for all the characters but especially for this tree. I mean, look at it, a lonely piece of wood whose only companion is a bunch of indifferent leaves. Not even birds' nests. He turned into a coffee table and, surrounded by hundreds of objects in some house, still had no friends.It seems when you're desperate to connect with people, you become some sort of friend
Short, funny, but I doubt you read it again. Goes well as a present "additive" (so as your main present doesn't look that small).But I am glad that not all my friends are dead.
A dinosaur says all it's friends are dead. Then a baker says all his friends are bread. Then a zombie says all his friends are undead. I'm surprised they missed so many other hilarious opportunities. How about a pencil saying all it's friends are lead? Or what about a tired guy saying all my friends are beds? You could have a native saying all my friends are red. Or even Colonel Kurtz, sitting on a throne of decapitated bodies, saying all my friends are heads. Sometimes this book will mix up the
Cute and quick picture story. I think my favorite is the fly. Hilarious!
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