Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123049 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
What is so appealing about a list? It's tidy, it's pithy, it's easy on the eyes and noggin. In this over-saturated age of information inundation, the list presents preorganised data in a format that doesn't require a lot of concentration or drain vast stores of brain wattage. Even the weariest intellect can enjoy a list of 10 data points. Ten most suicidal countries? Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary get top billing. The best-selling postcard in the Tate Gallery is of The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, whereas the top postcard in London's National Gallery shows Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers. And the list of top 10 countries with the most video rental outlets starts with the US, Pakistan,and China, and South Korea and Romania don't trail far behind.

Russell Ash provides lists on the universe and the earth, animals and vegetation, births, deaths and political achievements. There are city lists and country lists, building lists and park lists, as well as lists pertaining to music, books, movies, theatre, transportation, sports and the commercial world, plus a special section of millennium-milestone lists to prepare us for the next century.

The top 10 reasons to get The Top Ten of Everything? It is:
1.Entertaining
2.Educational
3.Fine Bathroom Reading
4.An Excellent Statistical Resource
5.Fun to Read Aloud to Anyone Who'll Listen
6.Doesn't Require a V-Chip
7.Portable
8.Great Classroom Reference
9.Keeps the Back Seat Quiet During Family Trips
10.It Has Only One Adverse Side-Effect: Know-It-All-ism.

--Stephanie Gold

Aberdeen Evening Express
"fascinating read", "very interesting and educational."

Brighton Argus
"laid out in a clean, accessible style and brimming with great
pictures, this is a book you'll want to dip in to again and again"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and educational
The Top 10 of everything, well... I wouldn't go so far to say that this book covers everything. What I would say is that this book is entertaining and can be a good reference book.

An excellent book of information.
I have bought this book in the past and I have thought it was excellent. When it came to Christmas 2000, I was asked what I would like and the book I decided on was the 'Top Ten Of Everything 2001'. After reading some of it on the night of Boxing Day, it was extremely hard to put down. A feature which I like about it is if it is talking about countries, even if the U.K. does not qualify in the top 10 of the category, they will include the data on it.

Overall, if anyone wanted to know whether it was worth their while to spend the amount of money on the book, I would definitely say yes.

Enjoy reading it if you do buy it!!

This is THE book for those "Did you know that..." people!
I bought this book as a leaving present for someone at work and he seemed a bit disappointed at first, but by the end of the day he was saying "Did you know that..." and everybody wanted to read it! An excellent book for anyone who likes to know unusual facts e.g. the top 10 countries for car and bike thefts. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone.