The Day My Butt Went Psycho by Andy Griffiths

The Day My Butt Went Psycho Reviews

• 
  Emily

  If I was a 10 year old boy I would have given this 5 stars. It is a bit different from the books I usually read. And it was a nice diversion for a person who is trapped at home because everyone in the world has the flu and I have a little teeny baby that I want to protect.
  
  And seriously, who would not totally love a book that has classic dialogue like this:
  
  "You might be unreliable, rude, smelly, non-self-wiping, and completely psycho, but you're my butt and I love you."
  
  I've thought that very thing to myself many times, but I have never said it outloud to my butt. I don't want my butt to feel underappreciated and go psycho, so let me publicly profess my thanks to my butt for the many times it has cushioned me while I sat, filled out my Gap jeans so they looked good, and just been an all around good helper to me. I love you Butt.
• 
  Marc

  Laugh if you will, but I had high hopes for this book. I can't remember where I saw it recommended, but my son (whom I pretended I was really buying it for) tried to warn me it was just so-so. People's butts go off on their own (they sprout little arms and legs after they detach themselves) and start a revolution. The goal of which is to eventually return to their human owners but in a re-arranged fashion by swapping places with heads (yes, picture that for a second: your butt is where your face currently is and your face goes where your butt currently is... except still maybe facing forward... I couldn't be bothered to reread that part and get it straight). Got it? So you're with me and you're thinking this is the greatest plot concept since Waterworld, no? Me, too. But execution is everything when it comes to writing (and beheadings, for that matter, but let me not digress). Mildly amusing but much too long might be a good way to sum it up. Underneath all this heinie humor hides a true horror story if you pause for even a second to truly consider (much less visualize) any of the anatomical implications going on. Felt like edging toward some sort of 25 Shades of Grey with butt-fighting heroes suggestive of a BDSM group: The Smacker, The Kicker, and The Kisser.
  
  The real disappointment: I thought the reading gods had shined down upon me when I found the sequel (
  Zombie Butts From Uranus) in a thrift store months ago). Surely, this was a sign? But after such a flabby first book, I shan't be trying the second one.
  
  
  
  
• 
  Eileen

  It never occurred to me to rate the books I read with my son until we got stuck with a bad one. This isn't it! Every month he has to do a book report for school. He is a special needs kid, 13 years old, who hates to read and does not read at grade level. He has to read outloud to me so I can quiz him as we go along and assist with comprehension. I try to find things that will keep both of us entertained for the month to make the process less painful. This book was hysterical! The plays on words and creativity are fantastic. It's gross, don't get me wrong, but it's just what a tweener boy finds hilarious--farts, poop, farting poop... In fact, there is one part of the book that is so colonically disgusting, I started to dry heave. We were grossed out with every chapter and laughed ourselves silly. There is a particularly foul smelling character, Ned Smelly. When my son took a cursory shower, I asked if he was trying to BE Ned Smelly and he scooted right back into the bathroom. Great pick for any late elementary/early middle schooler who isn't squeamish.
• 
  jamie logie

  (1)i decided to read "The day my bum went psycho" by Andy Griffiths because i have read Andy Griffiths books before and i really enjoyed reading them so i decided to read The day my bum went psycho to do a reading log.
  (2)the category the i have decided this book to fill out is "a book with a main character as a male". it was interesting because all through the book there are humerus events that happen in the book that made me laugh.
  (3)the character that i find most interesting is Zack's Grandmother. Although she was not really a main character, i found her interesting because she was always asking "whats that noise, have they resumed firing". Because she was all ways talking about the war. The war that no one is sure that happened or when it happened but to her it seems real.
  (4)a quote that i like from the book is "the Bumgards picked the Bum-catcher up off the platform and helped him to his feet. he stood there as Zack's bum attached the bum-catcher head to were his bum had been". i like this quote because this is the point in story were the bums start to rebel and this event shows what the bums want to do to humans.
  (5)something that this book made me think about more deeply about is if the story came true. what would happen in reality.
• 
  Ronda

  Fourth grade humor at its best. Good choice for reluctant readers--(though potentially problematic in a school library if you live in a conservative area that doesn't like you to say the word "butt" in elementary school--same issues as Captain Underpants). This book's appeal to the reluctant reader should outweigh the controversy. Great literature? No. Fun? You bet your sweet patootie.
• 
  Abby Fletcher

  This book traumatised me as a child I actually believed that this could happen and it was the most terrifying thing ever. I don’t remember the story at all but I still have nightmares that one day my face will be my butt<3
• 
  Leo

  I liked it because once a feral butt attached to the Kicker's face.
• 
  ✨ Aaron Jeffery ✨

  this was fun
  love a good old bum joke here and this was top tier silliness, but I cannot justify giving it a higher rating because I somehow did not enjoy any bit of it
• 
  Jackie

  Who thinks up this stuff? I have this picture in my mind of a bunch of adolescent-type men sitting around a campfire rifling off butt puns left and right and rolling over with gut wrenching (or maybe I should say butt wrenching) gas cramps. Voila! The Day My Butt Went Psycho! is born.
  
  Zach's wayward butt is at it again...he wakes just in time to see his butt leap out the window into the dark night. It is causing him trouble and he has to catch it! He spies his butt on a stage at The Midnight Butt Rally inciting butts everywhere to revolt. The butts want to rearrange the world...ahem, that is switch all of mankind's heads for their butts. Then, the butts will be making all the decisions. Soon Zach hooks up with the B-team: the kicker, the smasher, and the kisser, oh! and of course we can't forget Eleanor, The Great Butt-Hunter's daughter. They are on a mission to defeat the Great White Butt, but first they have to get past the nuclear butts, the kamikaze butts, the giant unwiped butts and the psycho butts, just to name a few. To make matters worse, there just might be a double agent,that is a butt sympathizer, among them! Zach, it turns out, has some talents he never knew he had, and what's more surprising is where he inherited them from.
  
  There's plenty of potty, poopie butt puns in this book...reluctant readers, especially 4th grade boys will love it! I suppose every literary(?) form deserves its place. It just isn't my type of book.I really tried (I really did) to give it three stars, but I just couldn't. I hope 4th grade boys everywhere will read it and love it. More power to the butts!
• 
  G

  I was looking forward to reading this book since this is actually my favorite Andy Griffiths' book. Aside from the weird fact that this book revolves around a butt-centric world, I enjoyed it. If you read my reviews of the other books by Andy Griffiths, you can see that I'm not really a fan of toilet or crude humor, but for some reason, it didn't really bother me in this book (which is very weird since this might as well be the weirdest book that Andy Griffiths has written). I think it's because, instead of me focusing on the weirdness that this book had (ex: butts and whatnot), I focused on the themes that it had. And this book had A LOT to it. This book had adventure, a bit of mystery and thriller, teachings about friendship and a hint of romance.
  
  Books by Andy Griffiths may be targeted for the younger audience, but the words that he uses are for a more advanced audience. But the ideas that he has, are clearly more enjoyed by the young ones or anyone who's up for a bit of fun. I like reading his books, especially this one, because his writing style was so fun and easy. You can easily imagine the setting and the events taking place, which makes this a good book.
  
  This is one of the books that you enjoy the first time you read it. There are actually some pretty good twists that you wouldn't normally expect in a childrens book. I certainly wasn't expecting the big twist during the first time I read it. But even though, I already know what's going to happen in the end, it didn't stop me from rereading this book for the 4th (?) time. I guess I just really enjoyed this book during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd time!
• 
  Heather

  Intrigued by the title, I picked this up at a used book sale. After reading a couple of chapters on the bus this morning, I couldn't really handle any more. Some of the puns were pretty funny, but it got to a point where, truly, only a prepubescent boy could like it. I guess I'm just one of "those adults" :(
  
  The idea of people's butts escaping from them and plotting world domination was bizarrely interesting, but their plan to switch all human's heads with their butts sounded like a grotesque sort of modern art. The jokes about the butts stinking when they talked and flinging brown missiles at their enemies got to be a bit much. And this is coming from a woman who normally likes poo jokes. That tells you something. Anyway, I decided I didn't want to read a whole book about it, but if you have a son who likes potty humor, send it his way.
• 
  Kyla

  I was literally lying in bed minding my business and trying to fall asleep when I got gripped with this random memory that was like, “Do you remember the first book you ever took out of the library when you were a kid? Wasn’t it called Attack of the Flying Butts or something?” Anyways, the Butt Trilogy still haunts me into my 20s and I think that should tell you about the gripping, cerebral nature of these books.
• 
  Elizabeth Wig

  apparently it was a formative part of zach's childhood so I *had* to read it... debatable
• 
  w3rmo

  it holds up
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  Nathan Johnson

  This book is more than you might expect.
  
  Of course, it IS entirely about butts. I doubt there are more than two sentences in a row where the word butt is not used.
  
  I picked up this book as a joke, it made me giggle like a little boy when I read the title. After reading a bit of it, I am very surprised.
  
  I've read a few children's books after I was considered a grown up. They always felt like they were for children, with the most simplistic language. Griffiths does not do that.
  
  While you might not find scrabble winning words, the way Griffiths strings together words is almost poetic. Slathering it on thick with puns and subtext. This books feels big and meaty, like the butts it contains.
  
  For the target audience, this is fantastic.
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  Amy

  I had to force myself to read this to see if I wanted it in the library, and I don't. It was so gross, not funny gross, but disgusting gross. Like when the boy climbs a giant butt and pops the zit on the butt and uses the pus to propel himself in the air. Way too heavy on the gross factor. My 10 year old niece thought it was funny but I think it is wrong. Dead wrong.
• 
  Liam Fleming

  A brazen and bold account of a harrowing day’s events, hard to believe one man went through so much and is able to be here and tell this triumphant story. Would highly recommend.
• 
  Kerry

  I'm sorry but this book was HILARIOUS!!! The title is not a metaphor! Zach's butt really does go power hungry and psycho! It keeps detaching and having midnight trouble-making adventures but this time it's gone too far! It wants to have all butts trade places with heads so they can rule the world. They use everything in their power (I don't have to say how they knock people out, do I?) to achieve this world domination and it's gross! Little boys and gross girls everywhere are going to love this series! Oh yes, I said series. Don't miss the follow up-"Zombie Butts from Uranus" and "Butt Wars: The Final Conflict"
• 
  Judy Wollin

  Zack’s bum has gone missing. It’s really hard to walk, run and do lots of things without your bum. Zack must find his bum.
  
  Team B are Bum-Hunters. Zack must find a way of going with them to find his bum. Events take a deadly turn.
  
  Will Zack find his bum? Will Team B survive?
  
  Many, many kids will enjoy the bum humour and the mystery.
  
  Recommended for 8+
  
• 
  Alex

  It was arguably the best book I ever read. Only 3 stars though because well it is intended for 5th and 6th graders and is about butts? But it turned a humorous topic into an interesting and twisting plot.
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  Karen ⊰✿

  If you just want to laugh at something completely silly this is a great book. I listened to it on audio and with all those different fart sounds found myself in hysterics until I could get my immaturity under control. Easy to see why this is so popular with young kids.
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  Zack

  This book has a very disgusting title but has a great storyline :-)****.