Reviews for Charities, Governance and the Law: The Way Forward

The average rating for Charities, Governance and the Law: The Way Forward based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-12-12 00:00:00 toby toby One afternoon I thought to myself, "I should go to the library and get a book to read." So, I drove to the library in my car. I took my kids with me, so I had to buckle them into their carseats, and get the library books we were returning and put them in the car, too, so I did that and then we headed to the library. When we got there, there were a lot of other people there, too. They were looking at books, and some were checking them out to take home. I found this book and thought it looked funny, so I decided to check it out and read it. When I got home, I started reading it. There was a long introduction about why the author decided to write this book and how he got a book deal and all that, and I thought, "Why is this in the book? Shouldn't this be in the literary equivalent of the DVD bonus features?" But it wasn't; it was right there taking up space at the beginning of the book, which I thought was kind of dumb. Okay, for my own sanity, I'm going to stop there. If you stopped reading this review after the second sentence, you are a wiser reader than I. This book was written exactly like that, only worse(if possible) and with a lot, LOT more drinking. This book was the perfect example of a great idea gone completely to waste on a really terrible writer (This guy was apparently a journalism major, which means his instructors are either a) complete morons, b) contemplating suicide over the fact that this schmuck got a book deal and they didn't, or c) all of the above.) I was annoyed by virtually every aspect of this book, but probably my biggest pet peeve was the author's blatant disregard for the validity or background of the supposed "laws" he set out to break. Do a Google search of "dumb laws" and you're sure to get results that are outdated, misrepresented, or flat-out wrong. A book of this nature would be a great avenue to explore that, but the author refuses to do so. He takes the Internet at its word and then sets about "breaking" these supposed "laws" with all the fortitude and determination of my three-year-old "cleaning" her room. For example, he makes a single phone call to a South Dakota (or North Dakota?) cheese factory to ask permission to sleep in their factory. Told that it would be a health code violation (duh. Isn't violating SOMETHING the whole point?) he just gives up on that one entirely. Anyway, after realizing that this book was nothing but drivel, I read the chapter on Utah for something of a modern-day de Tocqueville perspective. He whines that a Salt Lake Tribune reporter called him on the law he was going to break as not actually being a law in Utah (illegal to hunt a whale. Shocking that Utah legislators didn't feel the need to guard against that, considering that the biggest creatures in the Great Salt Lake are brine shrimp) and calls him a spoil sport. "Yeah, Legitimate Newspaper Man, you ruin all the fun of my completely unresearched and meaningless drinking binge across America! Lighten up!" Right? The nerve of some people. If you think acupuncture is a good time, or if you found my first paragraph to be brilliant writing, I highly recommend this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-15 00:00:00 Stephen Hall Fun concept. Lousy execution. Lousier writing. A brief browse of dumblaws.com would be more edifying, and probably more entertaining.