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Conjoined Twins 2: Where Does One End and The Other Begin?
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 30
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The first book raised questions. This book raises more questions, because the situation of being conjoined turns out to be infinitely more complex the more seriously you take it, and this book takes it very seriously indeed. What if one can swim and the other cannot? Can just one of them become an astronaut? What happens at the doctor when one twin is the patient and the other is just sort of there? These are real questions with no comfortable answers, and this book asks them with the patient persistence of someone who genuinely needs to know.
Illustrated in cartoon art with the tone of a serious philosophical inquiry and the delivery of something that should not be this funny but absolutely is, this adult parody book follows its predecessor by finding even more territory in a premise that most people assumed had a natural ceiling. It turns out the ceiling is much higher than expected. The questions keep coming. The answers remain elusive. The book keeps asking anyway, with complete commitment and zero resolution, which is the most accurate representation of what it would actually be like.
This Book IS For:- Readers of the first Conjoined Twins book who found themselves genuinely thinking about the unanswered questions for days afterward
- Anyone who has ever had a hypothetical go completely out of control and found it more interesting the deeper it went
- Fans of absurdist humor that treats its absurd premise with total logical seriousness
- Gift-givers who want to give someone a book that functions as a conversation starter for the entire evening
- People who believe conjoined twins as a subject should only be addressed in medical or documentary formats
- Anyone who found the first book sufficient and does not need further inquiry into this particular topic
- Readers who need their philosophical questions to eventually reach conclusions and not just generate more questions
- Anyone who has an actual personal connection to this topic and needs it not to be the premise of a parody book right now
- White elephant exchanges... this one generates conversation that goes well past the unwrapping and into the evening
- Gag gifts for the friend who goes down research rabbit holes and comes back with more questions than they started with
- Paired gift with the original for the full philosophical arc experience
- Anyone who loves books that make them think about things they've never thought about in ways they can't stop
Most sequels exist because the first one made money. This sequel exists because the first one raised questions that needed a second book's worth of space to not answer. That is a different and arguably more honest reason for a sequel to exist, and the book is better for it. The questions here are specific, weird, and entirely valid once you start pulling on the thread, and you will start pulling on the thread.
Roughly the price of a philosophy textbook that answers its questions neatly and sends you home satisfied. This book costs less, asks harder questions, and leaves you with more to think about than any textbook has ever managed. The twins are conjoined. The situation is complicated. The book keeps asking. Buy it for someone who likes to think. Buy both books for someone who likes to think for a very long time.
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