Weird U.S. The ODDyssey Continues: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets [Hardcover]

Mark Moran (Author), Mark Sceurman (Author), Matt Lake (Author)

Book Description

Series: Weird | Publication Date: November 4, 2008

What's WEIRD around here?

“Best Travel Series of The Year 2006”—Booklist

 

That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout the U.S.! Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture: it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (November 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402745443
• ISBN-13: 978-1402745447
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 9.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another great book, December 7, 2008

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Zelie Nic (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weird U.S. The ODDyssey Continues: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

The "Weird" series are great collections for those of us who enjoy reading strange histories, folklore, and reports of the unexplained (i.e. ghosts, aliens, cryptoids). This book is a continuation of "Weird U.S." and some of the stories in here truly are weird. If you're a fan ofany of the other books that these two men named Mark have compiled, then you know what to expect. But if you're not...

All of the books in the "Weird" series are mostly made up from contributions from people all over the United States, even Puerto Rico. A lot of the stories therein are historically true (The Bender Family of Kansas, Sherrif Plummer in Montana, etc.). There's always large sections dedicated to abandoned towns, schools, asylums which are easily verifiable. Some of the most interesting reading here, however, is the folklore which, seldomly backed by much more than the person's word, must be taken with a grain of salt.

"Weird U.S.: The ODDyssey Continues" is another in a long line of great books that will leave you wishing there was more, and who knows? Maybe there will be a third. Each book has certainly been succesful enough. A "Weird" book is always a sure bet on a dark night.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sequels can be as good as the original!, January 1, 2009

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M. Romyns (Clifton, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weird U.S. The ODDyssey Continues: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

It was nice to hear some fresh new stories, you can only read the first one so many times before you know it all. A good installment to the Weird series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weird US II, December 27, 2008

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Khadija J Asad "KJA" (LOUISIANA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weird U.S. The ODDyssey Continues: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

If you loved the first book, you'll love the second. Filled with tons of photos and information, this book quickly became a family favorite. Both of my kids love it and want to run off and explore some of the places listed. Well worth the read.