Just Disgusting!
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| Author | Andy Griffiths |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Terry Denton |
| Cover artist | Terry Denton |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Series | Just! |
| Genre | Children's fiction, short story |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan Australia |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | |
| ISBN | 978-0-330-36368-6 Search this book on  . |
| OCLC | 53348455 |
| Preceded by | Just Crazy! |
| Followed by | Just Shocking! |
Just Disgusting! is the fifth book in the Just! series by Andy Griffiths. Some copies of the book additionally came with stickers.
The book won a BILBY Award in the Younger Readers category in 2004.[1]
101 Really Disgusting Things[edit]
Andy lists 101 disgusting things, of which the next-to-last one contains a long story of all the major things Andy lists, and the last one is the list itself. These disgusting things include drinking a cup of cold spit and picking other people's noses and eating it.
Brussels Sprouts[edit]
Andy uses strategies to try to avoid brussels sprouts. Using four strategies, from feeding one to the dog, to sneezing one out, he is soon forced to eat one as he describes his hatred of the taste excessively. In order to have dessert, Andy must eat all five. What he finds out later, is custard for dessert, which he also hates.
Go to Bed![edit]
Andy reads a book, then his mother pleads him to go to bed. His father comes, really angry, leading to an argument, during which Andy tells lies. His ultimate lie was that he needed to do a science project. Then, he says to his teddy bear: "Tomorrow I'll stay up really late how about you!?" ending the story. (Note: This story is written as a poem, with footnotes on almost every line)
Cake of Doom[edit]
Andy, or the reader is part of an interactive story of a pick-your-destiny plot. It is Mother's Day and you must prepare and make a cake for her. The book says that you don't know to make a cake but Andy won't take a detail like that as a reason to not make one. After going through 23 parts of either the bad ending of you dying for some crazy reason, or moving on, until it ends with part 23. Unfortunately for Andy, he ends up accidentally killing the family's dog, Sooty, when the latter eats the original cake, as well as the rest of his family when he runs to a shop and buys a new cake. Andy later finds out it was due to him accidentally putting cyanide on the cake instead of icing sugar on both cakes, including the new cake he just brought after the dog eats the former one. The police arrest him for murder and bring the death penalty back just for him. He is hanged by the neck until he is dead and then the story ends. The last sentence of all of the bad endings, including part 23, is "You die." Ways to die include getting murdered by your mummy, getting bitten by a rat, drowning in your own blood and having a bowling ball fall on your head.
Two Brown Blobs[edit]
As a comic strip format, Andy is in the bathtub with his rubber duck and suddenly two brown blobs appear (speculatively poo). Andy tries to avoid them by dodging them but over time they multiply. The rubber duck tells Andy a plan - to open the drain to empty the tub of the brown blobs. Once Andy has filled tub up again he asks to his rubber duck if he farted. Two more blobs appear, and the story can possibly loop.
Shut Up![edit]
Andy's family has been stuck in their camper for a week on their vacation raining every day. Andy and his sister Jen fight over games and mistakes while the time passes. Andy and Jen's father tries to read the newspaper but asks them to shut up due to their shouting annoying him. A family having a great day in their camper tells Andy's father to shut up and with the door opened, he and the father of their family tell one another to shut up. Jen and Andy continue to fight, and their father gets so sick of it he steps outside in the rain as the paper wets up and crumples.
Fun With Andy and Danny[edit]
Andy and his best friend Danny find everyday things to play with over the house. To satirise a beginning reader's story, the font size of the story is big. Andy and Danny play with a fan, milk, toilet paper and their dog. Seeing the mess, Andy's parents get upset so they have to suck up all of the mess they have created. However, they pretend the vacuum cleaner is a "sucker-upper", and they create even more chaos.
Deadflyella[edit]
A play about a dead fly starring flies. Based on: Cinderella.
The Story of the Very Stupid Boy and the Very Big Slug[edit]
A story made out of many genres and, hence the name, the Very Stupid Boy (Danny) ends up catching a slug for a science project and somehow, it keeps growing bigger. The smart boy (Andy) is making a time machine and tries to stop him and the slug from destroying the world before it's too late. Ironically, the story is dedicated to Lisa Mackney, the girl of Andy's dreams, and this may be just to impress her.
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