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Farts: The Spotter's Guides
Farts Around the World: A Spotter's Guide
What is proper English etiquette for a tea room emission? Can a Swiss fart be so loud that it generates an echo? If a meditating Buddhist passes gas, does it exist? The answers to such pressing questions are answered in this hilarious soon-to-be international best seller. Ingeniously packaged with a sound unit to convey the nuances of global flatulence, Farts Around the World is the ideal gift for those who like to travel with a smile.
12 pages, Hardcover
First published October 5, 2011
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November 12, 2014
This was given to me by my stepdaughter Katie, likely in early celebration of World Toilet Day (November 19th, look it up). It’s a whimsical look at flatulence in the cultural context of countries all over the world, accompanied by illustrations of people farting in ten countries, AND, most importantly, a speaker-enclosed device in the shape of a cloud, with ten numbered fart sounds corresponding to the countries depicted. This ranges from a harmonic echo from Switzerland to a brief, polite fart in a British tearoom to a Reggae-inspired Jamaican fart. Makes the perfect “Bathroom Book!” It is also reminiscent of a thematically-similar present I received from my friend Jim Wallhermfechtel, in evil collaboration with his daughter Eileen, namely a “fart clock,” in which the hours were “announced” with twelve different fart sounds and the face of the clock consisted of drawings of faces (eleven human, one dog). I also believe this volume (if you will) would be a perfect companion piece to the “Walter the Farting Dog” series. You’re welcome.
February 26, 2020
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Switzerland was my favorite Jamaica was a close 2nd
October 21, 2022
It's not often that you would read a book over a dozen times.
“Everybody poops, but first everybody farts!”
Truer words have been spoken, but not often enough, so this would have to suffice. This book is not afraid to get philosophical from the get go, and for that it deserves admiration, as few written works these days have the conviction in their works to spell it out so clearly and stick to it.
“Flatulence is one of the great universal languages.” We’re still on the first paragraph and already the truisms are hitting harder than Palahniuk in his prime.
Let me explain to you why this book is so great with a question:
We have mystery and adventure and action novels spanning the globe, being described spanning vistas or vast oceans or bustling marketplaces in corners of the world you only dream of visiting, but do you ever, even once I ask you, do you ever hear our heroes fart? Are you ever at least made aware that they do? Because they do, and the fact that nobody bothers to let us in on the fact is disingenuous and frankly appalling, never mind immersion-breaking. In this book from page one we’re taken to the streets of France and we see a cafe and a guy with baguettes and croissants and the Champs Élysées in the distance and there’s so much to see and to do and to take in and it’s all coming so alive right in front of your eyes and just when you think you’ve taken in all that is Paris, France your finger hovers over the little red button that you’ve been itching to press and you press it and you hear for the first time what it’s like to read a book in the third dimension when you hear that first fart and realize that it’s coming from the man on the bicycle, crop-dusting his baguettes, smiling joyfully as he does. That’s right, you HEAR the book, the third dimension of reading is hearing and now books will never be the same.
Then you think to yourself: this is only page one, I heard this fart, how many more can there be? How many more times can I be surprised by this insightful, surprising, eye-opening “gimmick”? Well, turn the page and see. Just when you’ve experienced all that is France you’re suddenly transported to Japan and a man with a black belt in karate is kicking a brick in half, a dozen drawn lines expand out from between his legs to display the full force of his fart, only then do we realize that it was his fart that split the brick. You’re so taken aback by this that you don’t even spot at first the sumo wrestler walking in on this scene. He’s surprised. But why is he so surprised? What is he doing in this Dojo? I think we’re meant to assume that it was he who was lined up for fart-splitting this brick but he was late to the party because he had to load up on broccoli or something and then in the midst of this thought you forget that just a minute ago you were in Paris and ladies and gentlemen let me tell you that’s what it is like to read this book. It is engrossing and insightful and educational on a level people are not used to and for the average reader and/or fart denier this might be a bit too advanced a read from the get go.
I won’t take you past page two as I don’t want to spoil it for those who are interested but let me tell you this book will take you for a ride and you best hope that you can hang on for the ride.
“Everybody poops, but first everybody farts!”
Truer words have been spoken, but not often enough, so this would have to suffice. This book is not afraid to get philosophical from the get go, and for that it deserves admiration, as few written works these days have the conviction in their works to spell it out so clearly and stick to it.
“Flatulence is one of the great universal languages.” We’re still on the first paragraph and already the truisms are hitting harder than Palahniuk in his prime.
Let me explain to you why this book is so great with a question:
We have mystery and adventure and action novels spanning the globe, being described spanning vistas or vast oceans or bustling marketplaces in corners of the world you only dream of visiting, but do you ever, even once I ask you, do you ever hear our heroes fart? Are you ever at least made aware that they do? Because they do, and the fact that nobody bothers to let us in on the fact is disingenuous and frankly appalling, never mind immersion-breaking. In this book from page one we’re taken to the streets of France and we see a cafe and a guy with baguettes and croissants and the Champs Élysées in the distance and there’s so much to see and to do and to take in and it’s all coming so alive right in front of your eyes and just when you think you’ve taken in all that is Paris, France your finger hovers over the little red button that you’ve been itching to press and you press it and you hear for the first time what it’s like to read a book in the third dimension when you hear that first fart and realize that it’s coming from the man on the bicycle, crop-dusting his baguettes, smiling joyfully as he does. That’s right, you HEAR the book, the third dimension of reading is hearing and now books will never be the same.
Then you think to yourself: this is only page one, I heard this fart, how many more can there be? How many more times can I be surprised by this insightful, surprising, eye-opening “gimmick”? Well, turn the page and see. Just when you’ve experienced all that is France you’re suddenly transported to Japan and a man with a black belt in karate is kicking a brick in half, a dozen drawn lines expand out from between his legs to display the full force of his fart, only then do we realize that it was his fart that split the brick. You’re so taken aback by this that you don’t even spot at first the sumo wrestler walking in on this scene. He’s surprised. But why is he so surprised? What is he doing in this Dojo? I think we’re meant to assume that it was he who was lined up for fart-splitting this brick but he was late to the party because he had to load up on broccoli or something and then in the midst of this thought you forget that just a minute ago you were in Paris and ladies and gentlemen let me tell you that’s what it is like to read this book. It is engrossing and insightful and educational on a level people are not used to and for the average reader and/or fart denier this might be a bit too advanced a read from the get go.
I won’t take you past page two as I don’t want to spoil it for those who are interested but let me tell you this book will take you for a ride and you best hope that you can hang on for the ride.
December 26, 2020
Audio quality and graphics are excellent.
June 13, 2021
How could you not like this? I actually have two other books from this series, too
November 11, 2020
My husband challenged me to review this book as he thinks it's the greatest book ever written. Every day he has pressed one or more of those buttons and laughed like a school boy as the fart noise is released upon me. It was me that bought it for him as one of his Christmas presents. Never has any other Christmas present brought such joy to him. Guaranteed to put a smile on his face.
The book is a non fiction account of farts around the world. Each country has it's own distinct sound. You can interact by pressing the button panel and listen to each country's particular fart sound. It's very much stereotyping for instance the fart from Switzerland has an echoed yodelling feel to it.
It's light-hearted fun and that’s what we all need regularly. I am glad I bought it for him as it gives him so much joy to press those buttons and watch my disgusted face.
The book is a non fiction account of farts around the world. Each country has it's own distinct sound. You can interact by pressing the button panel and listen to each country's particular fart sound. It's very much stereotyping for instance the fart from Switzerland has an echoed yodelling feel to it.
It's light-hearted fun and that’s what we all need regularly. I am glad I bought it for him as it gives him so much joy to press those buttons and watch my disgusted face.
June 12, 2012
Fun and funny, especially when read with an appreciating companion but being the person I am I think this book would have benefited from a few dry cultural, truthful facts to round and balance the topic out:)
November 5, 2011
Hilarious!
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October 21, 2013Too funny. Amelia loves the buttons that make fart noises, too :)
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