69 of 72 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Book and Very Fun to Read If You're on the GO, December 28, 1999
This review is from: The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books (Paperback)
This is a very, very good book, especially the first volume.
The basic concept of the book is this: 90 percent of the book is devoted to short 2 page summaries of great books. For example, the first volume has summaries of books such as "Lord of the Flie" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". The book is divided into many sections such as Classics, Science Fiction, Self Improvement, and Managmant, and Biographies.
The other 10 percent is devoted to quotes or anecdotes from many famous people on various topics such as problem solving and happiness. The last section is usually a section with many intersting facts and statistics. It is basically a quiz section.
The Great American Bathroom is also good if you have to do a book report and don't want to read the whole book. The book is basically good when you are very bored and have nothing to do.
It is also very good for making you save time and not reading an entire self-help book when the key points are covered in 2 pages instead of 300 hundred pages such as in most self-help books.
You can read it in the bathroom or on the bus.
All in all this book is very good for the person on the run or the person looking for something fun to read. It is good and very fun.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great to Deploy With, December 19, 2004
This review is from: The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books (Paperback)
I'm retired from the US military. When I was deployed on Operation Joint Endeavor in support of the Bosnia mission - I tucked this book into my ruck sack. The book was well read not only by myself but by others in the unit. The once-over-the-world summaries gave a much better understanding of books and plays we would otherwise not have read. My thanks to the author.
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great idea, variable content, abominable editing, February 19, 2002
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This review is from: The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books (Paperback)
This book series is a great way to brush up on your basic cultural literacy and gain a basic understanding of major works of world literature, philosophy, religion and so forth. However, whoever did the copy-editing job for this publication...--I've never seen so many typos in print--and the quality of the summaries is inconsistent. If you're thinking this is an easy "Cliff Notes"-type way to cheat your way through a lit class by reading summaries, you might get yourself in trouble since the two-page summaries can't do justice to the works themselves, and while some of the summaries are accurate, others are superficial and perhaps even misleading. Use this book as a reference, but don't be lazy--if you want to understand an important work of literature, get over your short attention span and go read it. While the Bathroom Books might help you decide what you're interested in exploring further, they are no substitute for the sheer joy of immersing yourself in a timeless, well-told tale.
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