Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers) [Hardcover]

Bathroom Readers' Institute (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 2006 | Series: Uncle John's Bathroom Readers

This one’s big. Make that pretty huge. No, wait—it’s GIGANTIC! Presenting Uncle John’s Gigantic Bathroom Reader, featuring two of our best-selling and hard-to-find titles: Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader and Uncle John’s Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader, now bound together in this omnibus hardcover edition for your reading pleasure. Tipping the scales at more than 700 pages, this massive missive is guaranteed to boost your IQ! Packed with fun facts, tantalizing tidbits, and intriguing information, this is no book for the faint of heart. This gigantic volume has it all: entertainment, humor, forgotten history, science, origins of everyday things, strange lawsuits, and a great big pile of pop culture. So don’t go to your throne alone — take Uncle John with you!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Portable Press (March 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592236065
• ISBN-13: 978-1592236060
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1988, the Bathroom Readers' Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and anywhere else, for that matter). Our crack staff works year-round to bring you the publishing industry's most absorbing anthologies of history, humor, origins, flops, fads, quotes, puzzles, kids' stuff, and more. Today, with more than 11 million books in print and a membership base topping 40,000 loyal readers, the movement begat by Uncle John is stronger than ever. In fact, the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series in the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the world.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gigantic Fun, February 18, 2007

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AG Bettle "Tom" (Oak Hill VA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers) (Hardcover)

The Bathroom series of books do not really belong in the bathroom, because once you start to read them they are hard to put down. This is the one of the latest in a great series and it does not disappoint.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slow down a second ,if you're thinking of buying this Uncle John Edition., October 23, 2010

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J. Guild (Toronto,Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers) (Hardcover)

I was very excited when I "found" this Edition;but when I got home and checked my "Uncle John's Collection" the air suddenly quickly leaked 'outta by baloon.At first glance this is a great Edition,it's really big at 712 pages,a hard cover at that,and at a great price of $14.95.So;what's my beef?.Well,if you check the copyrite page,you'll see it is a compliation of two previously published editions;well sort of....

"The Giant 10th.Anniversary" Edition was published in 1997,with 504 pages @$16.95
"The Absolutely Absorbing"Edition was published in 1999,with 515 pages @ $16.95

Hence, it doesn't include all of both of these editions;but enough that if you already have ,or have read them;then this is not so great a deal.However;if you haven't;then it is .
But,I guess that's the way things go these days.Then again;if you can't trust Uncle John and "The Bathroom Reader's Institute";who can you trust?
I rated this Edition 5*;but I've just finished another "Reader";"Collossal Collection of "Quotable Quotes",which I'm reviewing next.
I can't refrain from mentioning a quotation that BRI missed including ;and was brouht to mind in buying "Gigantic"

"Fool me once shame on you;but fool me twice ,shame on me."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best book., June 9, 2007

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Ricky Ng (Buffalo, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers) (Hardcover)

Know a friend that spends time reading in the bathroom!? This will be a perfect gift for them. It has it's very funny moments and some quite surprising times too. It's also a great pass time reading if you don't feel like starting a novel just yet.