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Some might describe The Little Book of Sham as Wildean and Orwellian in equal measure. Read it and be enlightened by the everyday musings of an author troubled by where he is and why his GPS keeps failing him. - David Whelan

Review originally posted in Abby's Shelf: http://wp.me/p7MnAP-4P
The Little Book of Sham by Keith Martin is a witty, entertaining and insightful book. It is written in a manner of a self help book but is actually a compilation of parody of some inspirational sayings. Author jokes on several topics ranging from Donald Trump, Kardashians to modern life. I laughed out loud few times learning how true some quotes were.

Overall it’s a great little book with a perfect blend of wit and wisdom. I really do hope the author writes another one. Highly recommended. Perfect for a light read.


This is a fairly amusing little collection of jokily adapted "inspirational" and "motivational" sayings which is a sort of parody of things like The Little Book Of Calm. Keith Martin has included an epigraph from Wittgenstein: “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” Well, this is not a philosophical work and the jokes are OK but often not brilliant, but it's worth a look I'd say.Some "aphorisms", it has to be said, are pretty familiar, but there's a decent smattering of original stuff here. I'd say that it's likely to induce a wry smile rather than provoke loud laughter. To give a flavour, a few random (and clean!) selections are:"Life is short and often brutal like a job interview. So be yourself. On no account be Piers Morgan.""Nothing lasts forever, except sofa sales""Idle hands used to do the 'devil's work'. Today they post updates on Facebook.Though it may be the same thing."This is a book to dip into from time to time for a few pages, which will amuse, I think. Reading the whole lot at once gets a bit much, but I can recommend it as an entertaining little collection.(I was sent a free e-copy for review.)



Montzalee Wittmann
The Little Book of Sham by Keith Martin is a fun and witty book of insights and reflections that had me giggling and saying, "How true!" or groaning throughout the book. It comes in short spurts of "wisdom" and I just had to keep interrupting others around me and reading to them from the book. I had them laughing or groaning in fun too. A great little book! Please write another! The only problem I found is that the book is too short!
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Molly
this was very silly, very quirky and quite entertaining...right up my alley

David Crosby
Liked it, but didn't Love it, a good quick read. Quite funny in parts, but less funny (or maybe less clever) in others. There are some unique gems in here though that lift it above similar self published, I'll be lending this to others with a "Go on, you might like this..."

I received a free copy of this book via Goodreads Giveaways.


RM Picket
I enjoyed Keith (boy genius) Martin's book immensely. Not a traditional read it is something to dip into now and then.


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