Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I ordered this book used in Good Condition as a gag gift for my fiance's 40th birthday. The description made it seem like a funny story poking fun at the aches and pains of growing older and the prospect of being sent off to a retirement home. When it arrived, I was immediately disappointed. I read through the book with my 12 year old before I intended to wrap it, but neither of us were laughing at the story. It basically follows the story of one man who goes to the doctor and keeps getting referred to different providers for different tests and being given various prescriptions for the multitude of ailments supposedly related to old age. These visits are interspersed with scenes of the man sitting in a waiting room talking to a fish in the office's fish tank. The cadence of text on each page does not always rhyme or feel like what you'd typically expect of a Seuss book, and the attempted humor often falls flat. I was also very disappointed with the condition of the book I received. The description listed the book as being in good condition with minor wear around pages and binding from previous readings, and as having the dust jacket intact. What I received was a dust jacket with a large, obvious sun-fade line across the top front cover from where it previously sat with some smaller object in front of it in direct sunlight for an extended period of time. This didn't concern me at first, as I may have removed the cover before gifting, but it had affected the front cover underneath as well. To make matters worse, the first page when the book was opened had a large hand-written inscription, in pen, from a previous gift-giver to a previous owner. I debated tearing the page out, but it would have ruined the title page that followed. I went back to check the description of my order to see if I had missed something, but nowhere did it state that even small markings, notes, or highlighted text would be present. A bit disgusted overall, I returned the book and decided against giving the gift at all.