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2.5*
I laughed uproariously at the start of this book (my favourite was the bus that wouldn't stop for passengers, otherwise it wouldn't be able to keep to it's timetable!)
but after 50 pages I started to slow down to a reading crawl. It's hard to read a bunch of anecdotes strung together & I don't think it's my imagination - the later chapters weren't as funny. One story about a juror at a rape trial was in such poor taste (& in the chapter of unverified incidents!) that it shouldn't have been included. It cost the book half a star.
So would 21st century readers be up for All New Improved Book of Heroic Failures? Think a computer disaster like the Avon County Council pay system couldn't happen in modern times? You might want to Google how well Australian company Talent2 Novopay system has done paying New Zealand School staff.
Novopay is worthy of an entire chapter.
Or how about the wildly successful social media reading site that decided to change it's design without fully testing it, causing eyestrain to thousands of users, including volunteers that help run it?
Nah, far too improbable.
I laughed uproariously at the start of this book (my favourite was the bus that wouldn't stop for passengers, otherwise it wouldn't be able to keep to it's timetable!)
but after 50 pages I started to slow down to a reading crawl. It's hard to read a bunch of anecdotes strung together & I don't think it's my imagination - the later chapters weren't as funny. One story about a juror at a rape trial was in such poor taste (& in the chapter of unverified incidents!) that it shouldn't have been included. It cost the book half a star.
So would 21st century readers be up for All New Improved Book of Heroic Failures? Think a computer disaster like the Avon County Council pay system couldn't happen in modern times? You might want to Google how well Australian company Talent2 Novopay system has done paying New Zealand School staff.
Novopay is worthy of an entire chapter.
Or how about the wildly successful social media reading site that decided to change it's design without fully testing it, causing eyestrain to thousands of users, including volunteers that help run it?
Nah, far too improbable.
