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I enjoy trivia. I find a lot of the pop culture stuff in here fairly boring, especially the ones that are formatted like "People who [have a pilot's license/were adopted/were married 8 times]" and then just a long list of names. I actually read the second book first (oops. I've had these books lying around forever and have read them before, so it's not a big deal. Also it's not as though there's any sort of continuity to worry about), and it improves on this aspect.

Fun little book about all things wordy and alphabetical that's a mixture of the pedestrian (palindromes and acronyms), the bizarre (United Arab Emirates is the longest country name with alternating vowels and consonants), and the hilarious (the phrase Hobson's choice resulted from a stingy horse dealer who forced buyers to take only the horse next to the wall and gave them no say in the matter - hence Hobson's choice). Its a great book to read cover to cover (will only take an hour, tops) or dip into for your own amusement and/or education (did you know Hull City is the only British football club whose letters cannot be filled in with pencil?) If you like words, if you like unusual and weird facts, or if you just like learning utterly useless things, you will love this little book.

Mostly useless trivia, but an entertaining and interesting read. Hopefully some things will stick in mind to throw around at cocktail parties :)

Very handy book with lots of info and statistics about murderers. Only negative thing is that it is very outdated.

Don't judge this book by it's title. This book tells us really awesome and intresting facts and

Why do farts smell like rotten eggs is a collection of questions or myth that are answered by the author(Mitchell Symons) and the questions are proposed by the readers.
This book is very humorous and i have learnt quite alot from it.This is a follow up of the authors best seller 'Is Eating Bogeys Good For You?' and was equally successful but the first book was ust the writers curiosity.
This book is very entertaining and attracted my attention effectively with a colourful and thoughtful cover and they layout has alot of pictures and aren't all squahed together and are very easy to read.
Bye,Michael.

A conglomeration of such random misinformation, disinformation and the occasional possible truth that I was truly disgusted. I wish I could think of a place to leave it that would indicate its absurdity; otherwise I will be abetting this hoax. Maybe I'll include my thoughts with the discard.

I like this book because the facts are funny

See, these are the sort of books that I simply adore. Neither one of them were actually "little" except that they were somewhat shorter than regular hard back books. Both had 360+ pages, though, and were chock full of lists of interesting trivia. They reminded me a lot of the Book of Lists series from back in the 1970s, and covered a lot of the same sorts of things. People who dropped out of school, last words of famous people, men who were 7th sons of 7th sons (Glen Campbell and Perry Como, BTW), what famous people did during WWII, people who have/had a famous mother-in-law, this is the stuff I want to know about. LOL I thought these books were delightful. I had one or the other of them in the bathroom most of the month and when I finished them earlier this week, I went to put them on the shelf and the rest of my family asked me to leave them in there! LOL These both get a 5 for sure.

See, these are the sort of books that I simply adore. Neither one of them were actually "little" except that they were somewhat shorter than regular hard back books. Both had 360+ pages, though, and were chock full of lists of interesting trivia. They reminded me a lot of the Book of Lists series from back in the 1970s, and covered a lot of the same sorts of things. People who dropped out of school, last words of famous people, men who were 7th sons of 7th sons (Glen Campbell and Perry Como, BTW), what famous people did during WWII, people who have/had a famous mother-in-law, this is the stuff I want to know about. LOL I thought these books were delightful. I had one or the other of them in the bathroom most of the month and when I finished them earlier this week, I went to put them on the shelf and the rest of my family asked me to leave them in there! LOL These both get a 5 for sure.

See, these are the sort of books that I simply adore. Neither one of them were actually "little" except that they were somewhat shorter than regular hard back books. Both had 360+ pages, though, and were chock full of lists of interesting trivia. They reminded me a lot of the Book of Lists series from back in the 1970s, and covered a lot of the same sorts of things. People who dropped out of school, last words of famous people, men who were 7th sons of 7th sons (Glen Campbell and Perry Como, BTW), what famous people did during WWII, people who have/had a famous mother-in-law, this is the stuff I want to know about. LOL I thought these books were delightful. I had one or the other of them in the bathroom most of the month and when I finished them earlier this week, I went to put them on the shelf and the rest of my family asked me to leave them in there! LOL These both get a 5 for sure.

SLICK, amusing, professional and just a tad salacious, this book falls into the category of what used to be called “lavatorial literature”. While the questions might not be ones you’ve even thought of, let alone want answered, they are full of prurient fascination. Covering everything from “Are letters sent to ‘men’s’ magazines genuine?” to “Why are the men in porn movies so ugly?” — with a host of raunchy topics in between — this is a gold mine of funny sexual trivia.

Collection of trivia relating to years and numbers; produced for the December 1999 Lottery draw.

Like Schott's Miscellany, Journo-lists, and the Wallace/Wallechinksy efforts, this is a collection of useful and useless lists. Fun but ultimately pretty pointless.

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