HEROIC FAILURES

(Investigator 215, 2024 March)




You're probably more of a loser than a heroic failure if you set out to commit a robbery but:

The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures (2011) by Stephen Pile is an entertaining compendium of choices and their consequences, of foolishness, idiocy and bad luck.

Many of the failures are of a religious or paranormal nature:

Most of the failures are ordinary, everyday-type people:

If you're often a heroic failure but want the wisdom to turn your life around, this book will help you to avoid many pitfalls.

Not every incongruous consequence identifies a failure. Elvis Presley once entered an Elvis Presley impersonator contest, incognito of course, and sang "Love Me Tender", and came third.


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