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Summary: Should be required reading for the Internet
Review: A guide to urban legends should be required reading for the Internet. It is freshing to have many of these stories gathered up into one place. Did any one really wake up with one Kidney? Do baby alligators that live in the sewer really come out to attack people? All of these stories do seem somewhat plausible for a moment. Read this book for peace of mind, and then enlighten your friends with the truth. This book is perfect to read when you are waiting for a train, or at the doctors office. No heavy reading here, but rather something nice, light, and entertaining.
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Summary: Should be required reading for the Internet
Review: A guide to urban legends should be required reading for the Internet. It is freshing to have many of these stories gathered up into one place. Did any one really wake up with one Kidney? Do baby alligators that live in the sewer really come out to attack people? All of these stories do seem somewhat plausible for a moment. Read this book for peace of mind, and then enlighten your friends with the truth. This book is perfect to read when you are waiting for a train, or at the doctors office. No heavy reading here, but rather something nice, light, and entertaining.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: Craugwell creates an excellent book with classic urban legends, and others not so famous to make a novel worthy of praise. Even if it seems disgustingly hilarious at times. Any reader should be able to enjoy to a certain extent. I recomened this book for people who aren't afraid of a little "sick" humor.
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Summary: just what i needed
Review: For obvious reasons I needed laugh this week. Alligators in the Sewer turned out to be just what I needed. Everyone of these urban legends is a classic and I remembered several of these stories from my childhood. Bloody Mary, the Hairy Hitchhiker, the Killer in the Backseat and of course the grandaddy of all the legends, the Girl Who Keeps Trying to Get Home are all here.
I loved it.
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Summary: great for camp!
Review: I am 12 years old and I really liked this book. It is totally great for camp and though I did not take it this year I am going to toake it next summer. It has some really scary stories in it, like the man who gets buried with a telelphone. Meg Charlton
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Summary: A light, fun book for those who love urban legends.
Review: I finished this book today and most of the time, i couldn't put it down. Unlike the bigger, bulkier books with lots of history behind them, this one gets right to the point. I do like the ones with the history, and even though this book provides some information like different variations or when the story started, sometimes I wanted more. There are a ton of legends in here though--and its very easy to read--its like hearing a good joke and you can't wait for the punchline. Even though some of them scared me--the poodle in the microwave (i can never read that one without cringing) and Bloody Mary (I still can't look into a mirror around midnight--cause then i will think of this story---you dont even have to do it at midnight, but for some reason, i always connect it to that!!) Plus, there are fun ones, like the college ones I enjoyed since i just graduated--i also loved hearing how elvis is alive and paul is dead. Quick and easy read... a "no nonsense" urban legends book! :)
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Summary: Derivative, no value added
Review: I must say, I got a wonderful sense of deja vu reading the entries we compiled for our urban legends web site in someone else's book. This one is a collection of re-told urban legends with no insight or value added. Stick with Brunvand's works.
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Summary: Fast and Easy Read About Many Urban Legends
Review: I teased my mother after she bought this book at a used bookstore. I saw the title and thought it was probably some cheesy mess of mindless superstition. Then I borrowed it and read it in a matter of hours. I just couldn't put it down. I was amazed at how many of the stories in the book I had heard before, almost always presented as 100% fact. Such as, "I have a friend of a friend who went to surprise her husband at a party thinking he would be dressed like Zorro..." or "Don't go down to Lovers Lane-- there's an escaped mental patient who waits for young, vulnerable couples." Even more surprising to me was that one of the urban legends had been passed off as fact by the administrators when I was in high school. The rumor had gotten started that gang members were putting AIDS tainted needles in theater seats and pay phone coin slots and my high school's administration sent out a memo to the teachers (I kid you not) to never stick their fingers into a coin slot no matter how badly they needed the change and to be very cautious when selecting a theater seat. Maybe there is some bit of truth that urban legends like that one are based on but I think so often each person who tells the legend embellishes a little more until finally, the finished product is totally wacky. I liked that this book works at dispelling belief in these legends rather than glamorizing them or giving some drawn out backstory on how they came about. If you are looking for something from the historical perspective, this is not the book for you. If instead you are looking for a book that delivers quick information in an entertaining way, this *is* the urban legends book for you.
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Summary: This book is Great!
Review: I think this book is Great. It reads quick and easy. Thats important to me because me and my friends can read the stories to each other in the hallway while we are going to class. I have got so many people reading this book now just because the majority of the stories are real funny. Everyone really likes "The Turkey Neck". This a book that under normal cercemstances would have taken me a month to read BUT, I read it in about a week. I would recomend this book to anyone. Its Great!
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Summary: Definately entertaining
Review: I thought this book wasted no paper with an analysis of each legend.If you want fascinating stories ,you have over 200 in this book.Other books ressemble humanaties text ,which have you skipping through dozens of boring pages to get to the stories themselves.Alligators in the sewer, really had what I wanted -lots of urban legends,in one book.
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