Customer Reviews

Life: Strange But True: 100 of the World's Weirdest Wonders (Plus: Famous Hoaxes Revealed) (Life (Life Books))

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Life magazine issues forth this book purporting to contain 100 oddities, myths, and legends in our world to draw a passing interest from the general public. Inside are some oddball animals both real and cryptozoological, lost civilizations, legendary personalities, UFOs & crop circles, and strange buildings & places from around the world. Plentiful astounding photographs lift up the value of this book; however, the glazed over info-blurbs for the presented 'strange but true' provides little to no information on the majority of the topics. The dual pages contain 2-4 'strange but true' samples. Simply put, there's the minimal amount of info to draw your attention but nothing is expanded upon and the descriptives really fall flat. The pictures give the book 5 stars, the info only gets 3 stars or less. Will make a good curious coffee table book for entertaining company.

This book has alot of iteresting and odd facts and stories, but most of them are already known by the average person, maybe without the details.

Great book and my students love it!!! The cover was a bit bent, however. Otherwise in good condition.

Shipping took a while since it was a Christmas gift and didn't arrive until the second week of January but the product was great and reasonably priced.