RE/Search #11: Pranks!

This is the ultimate prankster handbook, an inspirational guide to mischief and mayhem. It is one of those books you can read bit by bit as there is a lot of material to absorb (not that you couldn't read it all at once, but it's like a rich cheesecake, you will want to savour each bite instead of gorging). The interviews are of varied allurement, some yielding more elation than others, but then you can't please everyone all... Read Full Review

If I was stranded on a desert island I'd want to have something to keep myself busy, like a woman, a bag of pot, or perhaps even a book...like this one!PRANKS! woke me up from a deep slumber...the first twenty years of my life. It's as if a demolition crew had a party in my brain. This contemporary BIBLE is made up of a collection of interviews and essays by some of the nuttiest ontological anarchists to have ever walked... Read Full Review

A great volume, presented in the same engaging interview style as the 'incredibly strange music' volumes. Some sections are almost unbearably funny; some are grotesque and sick. All in all the book is unmissable - it makes a pretty good case for certain types of subversive behavior.

A life-changing, perception-altering wonder! "Pranks!" is unlike anything I know. I discovered it by accident when I was working in a used bookstore, about 8 or 9 years ago. I was a teeneager just becoming aware of how repressed and stultifying suburbia was--and of the people over the decades who have tried to blast open our minds. Even so, I didn't quite know what to make of people like Joe Coleman, who geeked mice &... Read Full Review

This book interviews some of the late 20th century's greatest pranksters and conceptual artists. From Abby Hoffman to Henry rollins, the interviewees are sometimes funny, sometimes challenging but never boring. It is a must for anyone from Jesse Helms to Dave Foreman because it helps one see into the psyche of the people who are challenging our cultural perceptions of reality in art and practical jokes. Despite the publisher's... Read Full Review