The Best of Pointless Conversations, Issues 1-6

by Scott Tierney

Pointless The Best of Issues 1-6 packed with cartoon laughs, stupid ideas and the utterly ridiculous, this compilation of extracts from the first six issues features the best of Pointless Conversations, as well as some fresh material. The hand-picked topics discussed by the two loveable idiots involve; is Superman a cowardly alien? (taken from Superheros) Is Back to the Future's Doc Brown a time traveling psychopath? (taken from Dr Emmet Brown) What is an ionising bulb and does it actually harness the power of awesomeness? (taken from lightbulbs and civilistaions)The "evil" Maid Marion, and is a fish in the neck funny? (taken from the Expendables) Is it really dangerous for pregnant women to sit down? (taken from The Fifth Element) Is using the toilet on Star Trek's Holodeck, bad for your health? (taken from The Big One)

Genres: Humor, Comics, Amazon, Graphic Novels, Comedy, Fiction, Sequential Art

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2011

Reviews

[Flo · Rating 2 out of 5]

These are pointless conversations; endless babble about the excruciating minutiae of every single daily event. I should've liked it. But no. Reading them was tiresome. Meaningless babble must be listened to. Besides, unless you're one of these guys, "What's the deal with" doesn't make any sense.

Aug 3, 18

[Glire · Rating 2 out of 5]

[Garrett Zecker · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got this as a free kindle giveaway, and unfortunately, I felt as though this was a classic example of the audience not entirely being matched up with the medium. This was a sort-of comic strip in Kindle format that was a sampler from six longer “issue” versions of the piece.

I felt like this was definitely geared toward the 16-21 college-aged mindset that is essentially a poorly executed Dave Barry-like column in a different medium that is for an audience with an attention span that responds well to one giant page of text and a big comic repetitive on every page save for a change in facial expression of our two protagonists. It is everyday philosophy of the young-set musing on exactly what the title says - “pointless conversations” - so essentially I was walking into something that was advertised from the outset.

I do wonder, though, if the audience that this is geared toward is not entirely in need of this piece. Don’t they have conversations about this on their own without it being written down? Is it necessary to document the pointlessness of some conversations, or is there some inherent need for more randomness? It reminds me of several podcasts that I have listened to on recommendation that are just two hours of nonsensical rantings by young drunken “philosophers” saying very little of anything. I unsubscribed and never revisited them, even though I gave it a shot like I did with this piece.

Yes, it is the best of pointless conversations, but who says its bland, narcissistic everyday intellectualism is worth the time it takes to read it? It’s not for me, and I wonder why it needs to be recorded in this medium for posterity when there are many other mediums that, while I do not like the content, do it better.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very entertaining and amusing, including a few laugh out loud moments, this collection takes one conversation from each of the first six issues including the cowardise of Superman, the risks of time travel in Back to the Future, using lightbulbs to clean house, Robin Hood and the use of children in battle, train etiquette and the practicalities of the Star Trek Holodeck. This is the first time I've come across these but they really did tickle me, and they make some excellent points (and also some not so excellent points).

[Dayve Rampas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this book though it involves nonsense conversations about certain topics. I laughed a lot while reading through the conversation about Superman (he should be called alien because he's a Kryptonian, and coward), Light Bulb, and pregnant women should not get a seat (or they would crush the baby's head).

[ToniRae · Rating 2 out of 5]

Funny ?

Funny ?

it was free but was it funny not one bit don't buy this book.. it's not worth it at all

[Aneirys · Rating 1 out of 5]

When they said it was...



...they where not kidding.

[Sarahanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly random. Too short. But funny and silly - in a random way.

[T.A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had conversations like this at work and with friends. Awesome!

[Biondatina · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars
It was funny in one very peculiar way that I couldn't laugh neither to I enjoy it. So not funny for me.
The pointless conversation goes for six topics as the Superman (why is called Super -man), the Back to the Future (the technique of time travel), The Robin Hood (the lion and the kids in the battle) and finally the Star Trek (I don't even want to remember that).

[Luna Myst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny

I was reading it, and noticed multiple blanks pages. I'm unsure if this was simply due to some sort of loading problem, or if the book was meant to be like that, however, I did find what I could see hilarious.

[Sharat Faqurudheen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title says it all.

While the boys had it's funny moments, there's nothing new or remarkable about the topics that we haven't heard before

[Ethan Wells · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly pointless but funny

This book was hilarious hahahhahhahahahah hahahha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Ross Kincaid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Boi

Yusssssssssssssssss what're dos 🐱🐢🐈🐱🐢🐈🐢🐢🐢🐢 boi boi boi boi

Yousa great!= Jar Jar. It's grrrrreat!= The tiger on the frosted flakes box.

[norska · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pointless, and not interesting. Gave up a quarter of the way in.

[Kasthuri BV · Rating 1 out of 5]

The power of awesomeness was only with the superman bit. Loved it

[Jenna]

Not a great book for Kindle.

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not funny

Only got it because it was free. Would not pay for it otherwise. I guess it's ok if you like very dry and unfunny humour

[Eva (hordekitten) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I mean, funny somehow

[AdeNike · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't actually going to read this book at first.

Just as the title implies, it's all about pointless conversations, BUT, taking a deeper look some of the conversations aren't that pointless after all, such has the superman's theory.

Once can also relate to some of the style of conversations, because these are conversations who hold with some ''crazy'' friends of ours and others would be wondering, ''what in the world are these people saying??'' lol!!!

It's also highly entertaining!!!!!!


....................Spoiler alert................
I don't know if this can be counted as a spoiler.
This is my first time knowing about a bulb, that produces ions which increases the vitamins in the air, dirt, viruses,........... It doesn't stop there, it can also help mental alertness, headaches...... lol!!!

[Rosemary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really want to look more into these pointless conversations because a few of them really made me laugh. I have conversations like this with people on occasion and I always find myself laughing at myself during those conversations. These conversations were just as hilarious. The three star rating is because one, the stories were either too long to or too short for each topic, it's supposed to be a "best of" so I assumed they would be short-ish but the ones that were really good and made me laugh were too short and the ones that I wasn't that interested in dragged on and on.

[Jeannette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short little freebee but very funny. I think most people should be able to relate to the kinds of conversations that they have, I certainly can. The train seat conversation has to be one of my favs, as well as the Robin Hood one.

[Darren Worrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

This tickled my geeky funny bone in all the right places and acted as a great sampler to Scott's simple block cartoon style in which the subject is far outreaching the art but that is why it works so well.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't enjoy this even though I am clued up on Superman, Back to Future & Star Trek. I gave three stars for illustrations but content was totally pointless & a complete waste of time. Doesn't make me want to read the other books either.

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I honestly only read this because it was free on amazon.
I liked the bits about about captain hook and peter pan & the lost boys, jungle book and most of the doc emmett brown but wasn't crazy about the super man coward part or making the pregnant woman stand bit.

[Kevin Govia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very engaging read

I love the dialogue, sounds exactly like what a real conversation would sound like between me and my buddy. Also, great topics chosen. Would definitely buy the books.

[Yasmine B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boredum Solver

It is not the best or most interesting comic book out there, but it gave me something to read while I was in the car for about half an hour. Really, it is just two people openly discussing their thoughts about movies, media, and the like.

[Alexis Haupricht · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it

Reccomend it it cracks me up.. Get it!!!! Well these pointless conversations waste moments of your life like reading this review!!!
Well my favorite part is the lightbulbs one. It is worth the price.

[Foreign Grid · Rating 2 out of 5]

Downloaded this for free like 5 years ago.

Would not recommend, unless two dudes arguing about pointless and crude aspects of movies is your thing.

Younger kids might learn a few new words from it though (in the good sense)

[Shweta Kesari · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pointless conversations or a book full of pointless content. I wonder with what thought this book has been written. Going through the content of the book I felt like chewing a tasteless chewing-gum for no reason.