Mike Hunt: Smells Like Fish (Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)) - Softcover

Gosse, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798352186008

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

Mike Hunt Smells Like Fish: A Children's Book for Adults Who Should Know Better

Meet Mike Hunt. Mike Hunt smells like fish. Mike Hunt gets hairy, bleeds, squirts, once got crabs, scratched endlessly, has ingrown hairs, collects toys, has a piercing, gets pounded, farts with great force and power, and is the absolute freshest right after a shower. Presented in the warm and innocent style of a children's picture book, this is the surprisingly complete story of a man named Mike Hunt and all the completely normal, totally innocent things that happen to him on a daily basis. If you are already snickering at the name alone, congratulations, this book was written specifically for you and people exactly like you.

This is not literature. This is not satire with a deeper message or a moral at the end. This is a cheerfully illustrated picture book packed wall to wall with double entendres so obvious they practically trip over themselves on every single page. Brad Gosse has produced something deeply unnecessary here, and the world is measurably funnier for it. It reads in about three minutes, which is genuinely the correct and appropriate amount of time to spend on something like this.

This Book Is For You If...

• You still laugh at the name Mike Hunt despite being a functioning adult with actual responsibilities
• Your sense of humor peaked somewhere around middle school and you have fully made peace with that
• You enjoy content that is technically appropriate but obviously and completely is not
• You want to watch someone unwrap a gift and visibly experience all five stages of grief in real time
• You have a specific friend who desperately needs this in their life and absolutely does not know it yet

This Book Is NOT For You If...

• You manage a homeowners association and genuinely consider it a calling
• You have ever written a formal letter of complaint to a television network about content
• You describe your own sense of humor as sophisticated, elevated, or refined
• You inspect restaurant menus for item names you find problematic or in poor taste
• You are actively maintaining a running list of everything that is wrong with society

Perfect Occasions for This Book

• Bachelorette parties in desperate need of a reliable icebreaker
• White elephant gift exchanges where winning matters to you on a personal level
• Birthday gifts for the person who already has everything and honestly deserves this
• Farewell gifts for coworkers finally escaping a job they quietly despised for years
• Retirement parties for someone who endured a long career and earned something ridiculous
• Housewarming gifts for the one friend with exactly the right kind of sense of humor

Why You Should Buy This Cheap Little Book

Here is the pitch delivered with complete and total honesty: this book costs only a few dollars more than a greeting card. A greeting card that someone will read in approximately four seconds, place on a nearby surface, and throw directly into the recycling bin before the party is even technically over. This book will get read aloud to the entire room. Someone will do the voices. People will take photographs. It will get passed around the table. It will generate at least three solid minutes of genuine laughter, which is honestly more than most expensive streaming comedy specials manage these days.

You are not simply buying a book. You are buying a moment. A weird, slightly degenerate, completely defensible moment that you can attribute entirely and without hesitation to the author. Brad Gosse is a documented real person who created this on purpose and with full deliberate intent, which means the moral responsibility rests entirely and exclusively with him. Your hands remain completely clean. Just buy the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798352186008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28