Book of Heroic Failures

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The Book of Heroic Failures, written by Stephen Pile in 1979, is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms. In the original edition there was an form you could send in to become part of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, however this was taken out in later editions because the club received over 30,000 applications and was forced to close on the grounds it was a "failure as a failure." The American version of the book was misprinted by the publishers, who left out half the introduction. As a consequence, later versions of the book came out with an erratum slip longer than the entire introduction. In his second book, the Return of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile reports that Taiwanese piraters were not aware of this and did not include the erratum slip.

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