King Tut was buried with 145 pairs of loincloth underwear; the average newborn baby spends 113 minutes a day crying; Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young stole a truck to get to Woodstock in time to perform; players on the Chicago White Sox haven't worn white socks since 1948; garlic and onions are both members of the lily family. These are but a few of the fascinating tidbits in this follow-up to the best-selling Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts. Handily organized into hundreds of topics from sports and entertainment to word origins and science, the book is equally useful for short stays or extended visits.
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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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This review is from: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Wise Up!: Amazing Facts and Incredible Information (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers) (Paperback)
I like almost all of the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books and this one is no exception. Packed from cover to cover with bite-sized tidbits of information this is one of those books that you can pick up and spend one or two minutes or a couple of hours enjoying, then lay it down for awhile without losing the story. If you read the Uncle John's books then you are familiar with the "footers" on each page. This book is a collection of this kind of information and may, in fact, be a compilation. It is a fun read.
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Meh...not as good as I was hoping,
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I love trivia and those little bits of information that seem to pop into your brain at random times to make a dinner party more interesting! As such, I was hoping more more of the same when I purchased my unknownth book from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
The stories are shorter in this one, and there are more that require you to turn to four or five sections down farther in the pages to reach the eventual conclusion of the story. I, for one, am not a big fan of that. There was a bit of recycling from other prior Uncle John's Readers in the book, which for me made it harder to stay focused and keep reading well into the wee hours of the night. It may possibly be just me, but I felt this book was a bit of a throw away. Many of the stories/legends/trivia bits didn't have the same flourish to them. Often they were dry and poorly worded whereas they should have been at least snicker worthy. In the past while I would read these books I often shared parts with my husband, knowing he would find them as interesting or amusing I as had. There were very, very few opportunities within this book. Go ahead and borrow this one from a friend or a local library. While it does have a couple of bright spots, there aren't enough to allow this book to take of valuable real estate on your book shelf.
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A Fun Read for the Throne Room,
By Kallah (Eau Claire, WI) - See all my reviews
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This book is full of fun and interesting facts about everything from the super serious to the wholly hilarious. Fair warning, though! Not all of the tidbits are 100% true: I've spotted urban legends, outdated data, and outright errors. Still worth the read, though!
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