This leans into that with puzzles, jokes, trivia, sudoku, crosswords and enough strange facts to keep someone occupied for months rather than a single sitting.
You're giving something that gets a big laugh when it's opened and then quietly becomes the most-read book in the house, which very few gifts at this price manage.
The mix matters. A book of nothing but jokes gets read once, whereas puzzles and crosswords give it a reason to be picked up again the following week.
The format suits short sessions by design, so it works in a way that a novel on a bathroom shelf never quite does.
Over 11,500 reviews at 4.5 stars tells you it genuinely delivers on the laughs rather than running out of material after the first ten pages.
You'll get more out of it as an add-on than as the main event. On its own it's a cheap laugh, and tucked in alongside something they actually asked for it rounds out the gift without you spending much more.
It suits tradies, dads, teenagers and, as the listing fairly points out, anyone who owns a toilet, which narrows the field very little.
It works as a standalone Kris Kringle pick, a stocking filler, or a funny addition to a more serious present where you want one thing that gets a reaction.
It's worth a thought about whether it's being opened in front of grandparents or small children. It's thoroughly good-natured rather than crude, but the title does the work and it's read out loud by whoever's nearest.
✔ Puzzles, jokes, trivia, sudoku and crosswords
✔ Enough material to last months, not one sitting
✔ Short-session format that suits where it'll be read
✔ Over 11,500 reviews at 4.5 stars
✔ Becomes the most-read book in the house
