{"product_id":"diy-dentistry-and-other-alarming-inventions-isbn-9780452290037","title":"DIY Dentistry and Other Alarming Inventions","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeranged devices and comic contraptions from the highly inventive and hilarious genius behind \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Bunny Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Much like his hero, Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, bestselling author Andy Riley is not \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c\/i\u003e an artist (or a liar)—he's an inventor. Imagine, if you will:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • The easily assembled Pole-Dancing-Club-in-a-Briefcase for stranded businessmen\u003cbr\u003e• Christmas tree ornaments that provide surveillance to instantly tell Santa if you?ve been bad or good\u003cbr\u003e• A high-speed police response unit aptly named the Cop Catapult\u003cbr\u003e• The Arsehole Trap, which can clear an average size town of arseholes in a single day with its promise of \u003ci\u003eBig Brother\u003c\/i\u003e auditions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike a twenty-first-century Rube Goldberg on the wrong mix of meds, in \u003ci\u003eDIY Dentistry and Other Alarming Inventions\u003c\/i\u003e Andy Riley has created elaborate inventions that are often side-splittingly sociopathic and never short of patently hysterical.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Andy Riley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Wonderfully deviant.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It's the funniest, bunniest book I've ever read!”—Elton John\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly researched—one of the most important books of the year.”—Hugh Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A guilty pleasure of twisted humor in the Monty Python vein.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eVery imaginative, very funny, very worrying if you're the author's mother.”—Richard Curtis, screenwriter, director, producer\u003cb\u003eAndy Riley\u003c\/b\u003e is a scriptwriter for television and film. His credits include \u003ci\u003eTrigger Happy TV\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmack the Pony\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning \u003ci\u003eRobbie the Reindeer\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Disney animated film \u003ci\u003eGnomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e—with a score by Tim Rice and Elton John.  He draws a weekly comic strip called “Roasted” for \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303165677797,"sku":"NP9780452290037","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452290037.jpg?v=1767725268","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/diy-dentistry-and-other-alarming-inventions-isbn-9780452290037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}