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Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends

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What can I say? Spiders in the Hairdo is the most entertaining and easy-to-read book related to modern folklore. From frighteners like, "The Belle of Biloxi" to laugh-inducers like "Attention K-Mart Shoppers", readers of this book will be entertained from the first word to the last word.

All those fun stories that you grew up with as a kid are here in this book. The next time you complain about all these new legends on the Internet, remember we all told the one about the bloody hook attached to the car door. And you know that story about the roach eggs in the taco meat made your skin crawl, no pun intended. This book is too much fun and a good source for nostalgic reflection or for retelling to all those people who you just want to scare a little! ...

This book does not explore anything new in terms of presenting new Urban Legends. But, it does dramatize well known legends giving them a new flare. Very good book.

This book makes for highly amusing browsing. It is full of ironic anecdotes that have been widely circulated by word of mouth or even in some newspapers as possibly being true. Rather than analyze the origins of these false tales, this book presents them in all their humor, horror, and glory. A few of them are gross, but many provoke laughter.

Spiders in the Hairdo is a collection of well known and in most cases frequently told myths, camp fire stories and I heard from a friend of a friend or a friend rumours. The majority you will have heard before but this is a good compact sized collection of some of the best tales. You've got the knife wheeling maniac in the back seat (as told by Auto on the Simpsons) who in this book is a rope strangler. The unwashed hair full of poisonous spiders, the hook on the lovers' car door, scuba diver in the tree after a forest fire and all the world's favourites.

They are quite good versions in this book and this collection is just as good as as lot of other books out there such as The Big Book of Urban Myths or the Darwin Awards Trilogy.

Spiders in the Hairdo is not however in the same high quality league for this genre as Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese, Great Mythconceptions by Karl Kruszelnicki,The Truth Behind Old Wives Tales by Thomas Craughwell

I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. My teenagers love this book, too (I think that's a first--Mom and the kids liking the same book!). Yeah, I've heard some of the stories before, but that doesn't make them any less funny. And the illustrations are a hoot, too. Good fun all around!

I eagerly bought this book expecting urban legends I hadn't read before. Instead I found stories that had already been docuented by Jan Harold Brunvand.Buy Brunvand Instead

This is a book for older kids who want to have some different reading, besides chapter books. My daughter likes to read this book before bed. It has some off-the-wall stories which appeal to her sense of humor. It has some "adult type" topics [like the woman hiding in her closet naked] which may not be suitable for all children.