Mark's "World's Worst" book 99-cents sale on Kindle

I can't think of a better day than today to announce that my 2005 book, The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things on Earth is on sale as a Kindle edition for 99-cents. It's a limited time offer!

Bookstore shelves are lined with tomes dedicated to the finest things that life has to offer. This is all well and good, but the real entertainment is to be found not in the cream of the crop, but at the bottom of the barrel. The World's Worst is a celebration/indictment of nearly 50 infamous and little-known exemplars of the awful. In thoroughly researched, scathingly funny essays, author Mark Frauenfelder avoids the obvious and digs deep to tell the fascinating tales of the worst people, places, and things on Earth for the reader's amusement and edification. Half of the entries are also mischieviously illustrated by the author. Addictively readable, and sure to appeal to fans of the popular Worst-Case Scenario and Darwin Awards series, The World's Worst is hilariously unafraid to wallow in the mire.

The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things on Earth

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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http://twitter.com/echolman Ethan Holman

Hah! Well played, sir.
mtdna

Worst. Book. Ever. :)
Matthew Chertudi

“Our records show that you already purchased The World’s Worst” Guess it’s time to start working through my ebook backlog.
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

I’ll finish it for four bucks!
HOTDAMN

Charming.

For those looking to dig a bit deeper on the subject I would recommend Apocalypse Culture 1 & 2 edited by Adam Parfrey.
Cameron Orr

And bought, even though the sample revealed a typo. I won’t hold it against anyone!
iamamro

Pity it’s £4.77 in the UK
- Gilbert Wham
  
  Fuck me, what happened to the exchange rate? I could have made a killing!
awjt

I hope that car crash video isn’t in there!
Wibbly

Not available in Asia-Pacific region … lucky that BoingBoing doesn’t have international readers …
http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

I already bought at a price somewhat higher than 99 cents. Grumble.
- awjt
  
  That’s the worst!
nachoproblem

Turns out to be NOT such good bedtime reading material. :P
Tchoutoye

I love Durian fruit!
http://www.facebook.com/dimitrios.papagiannis Dimitrios Papagiannis

I can even appreciate the alluring awfulness of the cover