Two out of a possible three (Don't Panic is the only other one I've read) ain't bad.
Although possibly I should have guessed The Book of Heroic Failures: I haven't read it, but I have read the sequel, More Heroic Failures. (The first entry in MHF is Pile's own Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, founded so that ordinary people could get together to commiserate about their lack of success; following the publicity from TBOHF they received so many membership applications that they had no choice but to declare the club a roaring success, and therefore a complete and miserable failure.)
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Date: 2008-10-04 01:21 pm (UTC)Although possibly I should have guessed The Book of Heroic Failures: I haven't read it, but I have read the sequel, More Heroic Failures. (The first entry in MHF is Pile's own Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, founded so that ordinary people could get together to commiserate about their lack of success; following the publicity from TBOHF they received so many membership applications that they had no choice but to declare the club a roaring success, and therefore a complete and miserable failure.)