Absurd Internet Ads and the Real Conversations that Followed
February 15, 2019
In today's gig economy, there is but one place to find the best of the truly absurd: the online classified ads. Debut author Mahon turns her advertising background into hilarity as she posts ludicrous premises asking for help online, then toys with the respondents. Will readers believe there are people willing to knit Mahon into a cocoon for the winter, or people willing to let her practice her tattooing on them while sitting in the back of her uncle's auto-body shop? Anyone who's been on the internet won't be surprised, but the conversations that follow are all hilarious in their own way. Each unsuspecting mark has a different boiling point, and what makes one double down while another bails will keep you reading in disbelief. Mahon's work in ad writing helps her keep premises short and witty, and her ability to respond with earnest and outrageous candor turns the exchanges into repartee that wouldn't be out of place on a sitcom or behind a stand-up mic. This is bite-size comedy you'll devour.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)