Customer Reviews

2201 Fascinating Facts: 2 Vols. in One

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While the book promised to be a "must have" for trivia fans, when you start looking at the facts and you compare them with more recent and updated books, you realize how out of date and ancient this book is.

An example? It mentions that there is a code for statues with horses. The author mentions about having four, three or two legs on ground and the different meanings (how did the person die). This is all a "myth" and a dark obscure legend. There is no such code and it has been verified (see Ed Zotti "Know it all")

If I were you, I'd buy Cecil Adams' books "The straight dope". They are funnier and updated...

When I read this book years ago, I found the information therein just as the title states: fascinating. But upon further perusing of this work, I began to notice incorrect information presented as fact. For example, the deer botfly does NOT fly at the stated high speed; that fanciful notion came from a quote by etymologist Charles H. T. Townsend. His absurd estimation was proven false by Irving Langmuir.

I've also found information in this book that contradicts "facts" elsewhere in the book. And the statistics cited from years ago are often out of date and inaccurate. I recommend this title only if you are willing to verify some of its information against other sources and have a keen ability to distinguish between fact and fascinating fiction -- however plausible it might seem.

This would be a good book if it didn't make false claims. For example: You CANNOT "see stars during the day from the bottom of a well" - this is an urban legend.

I find it disturbing from other comments that people dig this book out as "proof" of certain things, which are NOT TRUE.

Don't except anything on faith - even if its written in a book.

I bought this book as a family Christmas gift several years ago, and all five of my kids (now ages 16-26) still read it. The information is presented in an interesting manner which is easy to read and understand.

Almost every week someone in the family will state a "fact" and prove it by hauling out the dog-eared copy of 2201 Fascinating Facts.

I don't want to appear to negative as overall, this is an interesting book, but in some parts it was a bit ordinary.

Some of the facts were truly amazing but some of the facts were merely just statistics so they weren't really of great interest. Since these statistics were based on the 1970's or 1980's, they are no longer current even though they may have been facts when first published. Research and technology have also appeared to disprove some facts as well.

Overall, it's OK but I prefered the trivia book by Isaac Asimov.

This book is very interesting, I rate this book very high for anyone interested in events and triva.

This was one of the cutest books I had ever read. It was educational and quite interesting. It was full of those things that you are curious about but too embarrassed to ask. I have really enjoyed it and have recommended it to several people.

I enjoyed reading this book although I wish they had one more up to date. I learned a lot of fascinating facts.

Worth every penny. Quick easy to find information on just about everything

I recieved this book through a friend and I haven't ben able to put it down since! I reccomend it to other "Fact Junkies" like myself!