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

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

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Product Description
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: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #152,364 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Troy E. Considine (Henderson, Nevada, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Journey to the Center of Weirdness, July 30, 2008

By	B. B. Barker (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Nevada is one weird place, and Joe Oesterle and Tim Crindland take a creative approach to unearthing the true weirdness of this majestic state. I especially liked the "Bizarre Beasts" section with its entry on the Wahoo--one of America's most underrated mythical monsters. Did I just write that?

Huge thanks to the authors, as well, for the mention of my novel Operation EMU in the "Local Legends" section.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Richard Menzies "The Road Worrier" (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.