Absorbing Spongebob: Ten Ways to Squeeze More Happiness Out of Life

By Steven Harriman

Book Overview

INSPIRED BY THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW- Advice for the kid inside every one of its 27 million adult fans. Spongebob Squarepants is the most famous sponge on the planet, and for good reason. Straddling the line between childlike innocence and mature contentment, he is particularly well-liked and well-adjusted. While he screws up from time to time, his absorbent nature demands that he learn from his mistakes. In this delightful book, it is the reader who learns ten different lessons for getting the most out of life and how to apply them, with Spongebob and other residents of Bikini Bottom as examples. Some spongy secrets to happiness: - Handling Fear-like Spongebob's fear of making an imperfect Krabby Patty. - Job Contentment-even a fry cook at the bottom of the ocean can have a blast. - Coping with harsh reality-is like how a sponge and a squirrel in an underwater space suit should probably just remain friends. Capturing all the quirky humor that has made the show a phenomenal success, this is the ultimate book for Spongebob fans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425207048
• ISBN13: 9780425207048
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Insightful and hilarious

Loved this book. Read it in small segments during lunch breaks at work. At times I swore the author had been in an office meeting with me. I read a lot of spiritual, personal growth book and this was so concise and funny but so on target. I'd never watched a Sponge Bob cartoon episode but fell in love with the character while reading the book. I just put a Sponge Bob video in my shopping cart.

Who knew...

...that a man who writes about vampires and monsters run amok in the Pentagon is really a laid back, softie at heart? This book cracked me up and snuck in a lesson or two when I wasn't paying attention...Sponge Bob is the Looney Tunes of the new millennium and Steven Harriman cracked the code first!

Fun and informative

You don't have to be a big SpongeBob fan to enjoy this fun and informative book (I have rarely seen the show but am the father of three young SpongeBob fans). The author neatly intertwines real-life situations with events from SpongeBob episodes that he explains with the right amount of detail so that even those unfamiliar with SpongeBob will get the point about love, fear, getting along with others, getting along with yourself, and even theology ... all of which are explored in a series of short and witty chapters, full of plenty of nautical puns to soak up (plus cleverly drawn cartoons)!