From the other reviews I pretty much expected a bunch of things that you could literally carry out with a little planning, kind of like Penn & Teller's bookCruel Tricks for Dear Friends. As near as I can figure, those reviews were written by the authors' entire circle of friends.What you get instead is a barely-sorted list of surrealist nonsense that tries way, WAY too hard to be funny and fails nearly every time. I have to confess that I smiled at a couple of the entries, but this is not the laugh-out-loud book that I thought it would be.