Author: David Earthman

Publisher: Synergy Books

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David Earthman came up with a brilliant and amusing idea after receiving so many online advertisements - by replying to the senders giving them bizarre requests and comments.

Many emails later David had enough stories to tell everyone and what better way of spreading his amusing online tales then through Emails from Hell, his newly published book.

This is a hilarious account of emails. The first chapter that opens instantly had me in hysterics as David unleashes his colourful character William Wyndell on Johnson Cleary, the director at Bloom Funeral Services. He explains how a member of his family is close to death and will be very much missed by all but most importantly he, William, would like this family member to be a decorative piece in the household. Or to put it more simply, William wants this relative mounted on the wall, possibly above the fireplace. This is comedy at its best!

Further on in this book we read William’s exchanged emails with a seller who is selling a diamond engagement ring for $400. He then goes on to insult the seller by saying that she must have got dumped. This results in exchanged emails of rage from the poor girl who he has freely insulted and ends in William simply asking… “how about that ring, honey baby?”

Another discussion that takes place over four emails, is about William and his “wife” who recently ate at a restaurant only to later discover that they contracted food poisoning from their burritos. David yet again uses his character William to bring many laughs to us readers, especially when he crudely explains that having severe diarrhoea due to the burritos caused his wife to have “an accident in the front seat of our car”. He also requests that the restaurant pay for the inconvenience, the mess on the car seat and anything else that needs cleaning or replacing. Absolutely classical school-boy humour.

A different chapter in this book is on pets, although sadly I found it a little too cruel for my liking being such a big animal lover. You’ll know what I mean if you read the exchanged emails between David (aka William) and DC about a pet snake called Steve and some 3-month-old black kittens. Although it is all humorous and none of this has actually happened for real, I still found it a little offensive. But that’s just me and it’s not to say other readers won’t laugh at this.

Also if you take the time to study the chapters there are funny sketches throughout, including one of Steve the snake and a little kitten held above the hungry serpent. Again I wasn’t amused by this as I thought it was unkind but there again it is only a sketch and obviously none of it is for real.

This is a great book with  bundles of humour and laughs. David asks the things you never do and in return gives us this side-splitting book packed with mini-tales exchanged through a series of emails. A right good laugh indeed with humour similar to Punk’d and Jackass.

When David is not terrorising unsuspecting victims as William Wyndell, he can be found snowboarding, running and mountain biking. Currently David lives in Austin, Texas.

The above review was contributed by: Jessica Roberts: Jessica has been a book reviewer for a newspaper and a national women's magazine and is working on a novel. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE

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