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Rumpleforeskin
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
There once was a doctor who seemed kinda strange. Not wrong, exactly... credentialed, professional in the surface ways... but kinda strange in a way that became clear only after some investigation into what specifically this doctor was doing and why the name on the door was Rumpleforeskin. This is a fairy tale about a doctor. The fairy tale uses the Rumpelstiltskin framework... the mysterious figure, the deal, the secret name... and applies it to a medical professional whose specialization is apparent from the name and whose methods are the subject of the book. The fairy tale is complete. The name is the whole joke. The book builds twenty pages on top of the name with complete commitment.
This adult parody book is a classic fairy tale adaptation that replaces the title character's name with a medically specific alternative and then follows the logical implications of that replacement through the entire story structure. The doctor has unusual interests. The interests are related to the specialization implied by the name. The fairy tale format gives the content the distance of folklore, which is the same distance that makes all dark fairy tales bearable, and it works here for the same reason it always works.
This Book IS For:- Adults who appreciated fairy tale adaptations that commit to their premise rather than pulling back at the last moment
- Medical professionals with a very specific sense of humor about their specialty and what's available in the gift market
- Fans of wordplay-based parody that earns its laugh from the name and then spends the book delivering on that promise
- Gift-givers who want to hand someone a fairy tale that takes a very specific and unexpected direction from the first page
- People who enjoyed the original Rumpelstiltskin story and feel the reinterpretation shows insufficient respect for the source material
- Medical professionals who find their specialty used as a punchline rather than an area of clinical expertise
- Readers who need their fairy tale characters to have names that work in all contexts including professional ones
- Anyone who is going to read this in the pediatrician's waiting room and hasn't thought about the visual
- Gag gifts for healthcare professionals, specifically those in relevant specialties, who have the self-awareness to appreciate this
- White elephant exchanges where fairy tale with a very specific twist is the energy the gift-giver was going for
- Anyone who has ever read a fairy tale and thought this would be funnier with one specific naming change
- Bachelorette parties... Rumpleforeskin is, surprisingly, bachelorette party content once you read the premise
Fairy tales have always had a darkness underneath them that the Disney adaptations smoothed away. This book takes that darkness in a completely different direction than the Grimm Brothers were going, and then names it clearly so there's no confusion about the direction. Rumpleforeskin is a doctor. The fairy tale format gives the content legitimacy as narrative structure. The name gives the content its entire reason for being. That name is on the cover. The cover is available for purchase.
Buy it for someone who appreciated the original fairy tale as a child and needs the adult version the original was always slightly leading toward. Buy it for a healthcare professional who has a sense of humor about their field that most healthcare professional gift options don't acknowledge. Buy it because Rumpleforeskin has never had a book before and the gap in the market has been apparent for some time. The fairy tale is complete. The name is on the door. Guess who's there.
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