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The Big Sleep: True Tales and Twisted Trivia About Death (Paperback)

by Erica Orloff (Author), Joann Baker (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)


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Answering our seemingly inexhaustible fascination with death, Orloff and Baker offer a slim compendium of facts, observations, lists, and general oddments. Particularly noteworthy are a point-by-point, chronological guide to the physical effects death wreaks on the unembalmed human corpse, pop quizzes on grave topics, and more euphemisms for death than one could work into a year's worth of conversation without risking characterization as some kind of obsessive. Withall, this is a lighthearted collection of morbid minutiae--similar, perhaps, to the novelty best-seller of many years ago, 101 Uses for a Dead Cat, but definitely more informative. Of course, lots of the information is anecdotal, and the bibliography includes sources mildly fraudulent (e.g., Ripley of "Believe It or Not" fame) and professionally skeptical (e.g., James Randi), but those things indicate the kind of eclectic fun the little book affords. Mike Tribby

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Exactly how many ways are there to kill a vampire? What famous choreographer died from a form of Mad Cow Disease? How many people died from drowning in a tragic beer accident in 1814? What happens during an autopsy? Why was Charlie Chaplin's corpse kidnapped? A What president haunts the White House? From the deaths of famous celebrities and politicians to some of the weirdest deaths on record.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 171 pages
  • Publisher: Saturn Press (1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1885843097
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885843098
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,999,109 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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