Product Description

An entertaining and informative compilation of trivia presents a wide variety of lists that encompass virtually very subject, ranging from history to science and economics and featuring such offbeat categories as "geniuses who died paupers," "poems nobody understands," and "explorers who fell short

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #661017 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 345 pages

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable
This is quite an interesting book to dip into now and again. In style it is sort of an extended miscellany book (crossed with the Bluffer guides).

A number of large subjects (art, biology, chemistry, economics etc) are tackled though the device of constructing short (usually between 1 and 5 items, occasionally a few more) lists under rather self-consciously funny titles and then providing a paragraph or two on each item. Just for fun the odd list of facts and figures are thrown in.

Examples of typical lists include: Fantastic side effects of neutering, Religious mysteries solved by chemistry, Women who shaped world religions, Religious rituals that hurt like hell, Reasons that you are an unreasonable reasoner.

There is a fair amount of American student/schoolboy humour - your enjoyment of the book will be determined by whether this appeals or not.