Full name: Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned

Author: Ben Thompson Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Humor, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Ben Thompson--author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude--is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest compendium, Badass: The Birth of a Legend. Like its macho predecessor, Badass: The Birth of a Legend celebrates fearless berserkers of every stripe, male and female, but this time pulls them from the hoary pages of mythology, fantasy fiction, and the silver screen--from Zeus to Beowulf to Dirty Harry Callahan, the most merciless gods, monsters, heroes, villains, and mythical creatures ever envisioned. Forget your whiny Twilight vampires and werewolves, these badasses kick butt! Similar books: The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson Our Dumb Century by Scott Dikkers Mail-Order Mysteries by Kirk Demarais The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten The War for Late Night by Bill Carter Completely Mad by Maria Reidelbach Caddyshack by Chris Nashawaty The Comedians by Kliph Nesteroff The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack Born to Kvetch by Michael Wex The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman Filthy Shakespeare by Pauline Kiernan The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower Comedy at the Edge by Richard Zoglin The Very Bloody History of Britain by John Farman After the Funeral by Edwin Murphy Expletive Deleted by Ruth Wajnryb Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl Wiggins 21st Century Dodos by Steve Stack