Weird Las Vegas and Nevada: Your Alternative Travel Guide to Sin City and the Silver State [Hardcover]

Joe Oesterle (Author), Tim Cridland (Author), Mark Sceurman (Foreword), Mark Moran (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Weird | Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Las Vegas is weird: that's no stretch of the imagination. But the truth is even stranger than anyone imagined! With a little digging, Joe Oesterle and Tim Cridland found all kinds of bizarre and odd folks lurking about in Nevada. There's the Neon Boneyard, where discarded historic signs bake in the sun and even Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car. And just for guys: take a break at a chunk of the Berlin Wall...now turned into the Vegas urinal.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402739400
• ISBN-13: 978-1402739408
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #15 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Nevada

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome To America's Parallel Universe, November 2, 2007

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Richard Menzies "The Road Worrier" (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weird Las Vegas and Nevada: Your Alternative Travel Guide to Sin City and the Silver State (Hardcover)

Do not venture into the Silver State without this guidebook; otherwise, you might miss out on a lot! From America's weirdest city, Las Vegas, you can go out into the dark countryside: miles and miles and miles of open, empty space enlivened here and there by some kind of crazy, quixotic human enterprise. I love Nevada because I believe it's the weirdest state of all. Thanks to this book, I no longer have to drive for miles, dodging roadside phantoms and risking alien abduction, in order to get my weirdness fix.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nevada is not only Las Vegas!, June 24, 2010

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S. Paul Sebesta (Carson City, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weird Las Vegas and Nevada: Your Alternative Travel Guide to Sin City and the Silver State (Hardcover)

I rarely if ever write reviews, but I must say this book was poorly done. Too much emphasis on Las Vegas and not enough of elsewhere in Nevada. No Carson City? 1 story on Reno?? What about the haunted Goldfield Hotel? What about the mysterious energy of Pyramid Lake? Too many "what abouts" that are sadly ignored. For any Nevada native, please, please, please... leave this one to the dust. For anybody else interested in Nevada... look beyond Sin City.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but nothing new, February 16, 2008

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Troy E. Considine (Henderson, Nevada, United States) - See all my reviews
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A fun book, but doesn't really share anything new. Most of what is written about in this book is already available just about everywhere else. Not much to surprise here, either. Neon sign museum in Las Vegas? Who would have thunk it? You could get the same information for free from the state tourism guides.