Smithereens Re-published

[Thrillho]

Smithereens will get a run of shiny new copies!

Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Very cross that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had no references to three-time world hotdog-eating champion, Joey Chestnut? Then Smithereens is for you. At only 300 pages you can knock it off during one of the ad-breaks on Shaun's hit show, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation.

And laughs? What about them? Well, does it have any? Of course it does – it's written by one of Australia's funniest men. Oh, John Clarke? No, not John Clarke. I like John Clarke. So do I, but this is written by Shaun Micallef. And as for references to three-time hotdog eating-champion Joey Chestnut, I'm afraid the only mention of him appears on this back cover. Still, it one more than Stieg Larsson could manage and he's written three books.

Yes, the popular Australian classic Smithereens is back. Updated and revised, with more commas than ever before, several umlauts and featuring brand-new material never before published in bookular form.

Join multi-Logie winning and much-loved TV star Shaun Micallef as he buys a call centre in India; rides the Governor-General's bicycle; lifts the lid on the Rothschild's mass murder of frogs; has dinner in Canada with the late Norman Wisdom; and provides a cure-all for the global economic crisis.

Smithereens

Nothing you'd normally ask for in a book, and more

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Ooooh!

Good news for those who missed out the first time, or those who have soiled their copy in some way (please don't elaborate on that here).

It's due for release January 31.

[yorkshiremoorsviv]

Typical! I just got my 'spare' copy back off a friend -four years late, & now I can't sell it for an unreasonable amount on eBay.

[sottovoce]

This news is too exciting! I have looked everywhere for Smithereens with no luck, so I was about to give up...now I just have to wait 4 months!
Oh well, Preincarnate is only 3 weeks away

[Thrillho]

Yow-wee!

[sottovoce]

I am so buying this!

[camthefool]

added smithereens? I guess I have to buy it!

[sottovoce]

OMG!! This book is out tomorrow! Soo excited Is this how Twilight or Harry Potter fans feel?

[Thrillho]

I've got my copy "New" stuff, a few edits here and there, but there were a few omissions to make room for the new stuff. (Long story: The unused Micallef Programme scripts. Short story: Transexual Weary Dunlop references. ...actually, that short story uses more syllables than the long story. Disregard.)

[sottovoce]

Woo Got up my copy this morning! I was sitting in the shopping centre reading it but I had to stop cos I was laughing. Trust Shaun to come up with a story about doing the Heimlich Manouvre on a choking bison when you're sitting by yourself and can't laugh!!

I missed out on the original Smithereens, but there's heaps of stuff in there I recognise. By far the funniest bit is the (actual) sketch on page 15, hahahaah

[betweentwoislands]

I need this book, how do I get one all the way to Canada? It seems hard to get even in his freaking home country of Australia. This and Preincarnate are stubbornly refusing to appear on ebay.