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Summary: Believe it or not, this is a great book!
Review: This book is awesome. I have had it for about 3 years now,and every time I read it I learn something new. Even the book itself is a conversation starter with its bright orange cover and hologram on the front, but you're friends will really be amazed when they hear about the only albino giraffe or the man with the Devil's toungue.I recommend this book to anyone who likes the Bizzare, for thats what this book is.
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Summary: Great book!!!
Review: I got this book the other day and I haven't been able to put it down since! This book is full of interesting facts and bizarre occurrences. There are pictures and cartoons with a good portion of the facts, which makes it more entertaining and so that you don't have to just use your imagination with the facts. If you like their show, then you will love this book!
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Summary: Middle Schoolers WILL READ!!
Review: My fourth grader received this book as a gift...you can imagine the initial disappointment in receiving a book and not a gadget. He has not put the book down! He keeps it on his bed. When friends come to visit they actually read! It has provided him with many interesting details and amazing facts to share with his classmates and friends. These reports are truly conversation starters. Presented with colorful photos and drawings and easy to browse paragraphs, this book is easy to pick up and enjoy for a few minutes before school or for an hour of reading. The reading level is appropriate for grades 4-6. Third graders could easily enjoy the book as well. This would be a perfect coffee table book if your child had a coffee table!
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Summary: Middle Schoolers WILL READ!!
Review: My fourth grader received this book as a gift...you can imagine the initial disappointment in receiving a book and not a gadget. He has not put the book down! He keeps it on his bed. When friends come to visit they actually read! It has provided him with many interesting details and amazing facts to share with his classmates and friends. These reports are truly conversation starters. Presented with colorful photos and drawings and easy to browse paragraphs, this book is easy to pick up and enjoy for a few minutes before school or for an hour of reading. The reading level is appropriate for grades 4-6. Third graders could easily enjoy the book as well. This would be a perfect coffee table book if your child had a coffee table!
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Summary: Still good after all these years..Believe It or Not!
Review: Ripley produced his first Believe It or Not! cartoon about sport oddities on Dec.19,1918 in the New York Globe;and his cartoons have amazed and entertained us ever since.I received my first book of these cartoons in the 40's and have been reading them ever since.Many paperback editions were published throughout the 50's into the 80's and I have managed to find many of them.In addition, many large books have been published and the high standard set by Ripley has been maintained by the staff, in spite of the fact that Ripley died in 1949.Over the years there have been many imitators,and some very good,but in my opinion, no equals.Somehow, the originators have that extra spark.I would suggest Alan Funt of Candid Camera was another.
With respects to this book "BIZARRE";it's got to be one ,if not the best one yet.It includes over 6,000 oddities,facts and records in a beautiful,well made, with excellent glossy paper throughout it's 318 ,10 x 11 inch pages.The drawings and pictures are excellent.Although There are a few items I recall seeing before,I believe most are new.
For those who remember and enjoyed the cartoons in the papers;and don't get them anymore you'll really like this book.By the way,for those whose paper no longer carry this feature you can get it on the Net at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Befor moving on, let me say that Ripley was a bigger than life character himself .His friend Bob Considine wrote a book,"Ripley--The Modern Marco Polo--The Life and Times of the Creator of "Believe It or Not";published in 1961 by Doubleday.There you'll learn about the man who owned a Chinese Junk which he sailed on Long Island Sound.He owned the most expensive cars but didn,t drive them.He loved liquor and women,but considered smoking and card playing evil and would have nothing to do with them.He was very shy, but no contemporary matched him in flamboyance or in seeking notoriety.--Believe It or Not!,that was Ripley,the man.
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Summary: Icredibly Interesting Factoids
Review: This book features standard Ripley's fare with more of an emphasis on facts (it is, after all, an encyclopedia) than on cartoons although quite a few of those as well as some photographs appear within this collection. Some of these facts are not things you are likely to find out about elsewhere such as the momordica, which is a fruit purported to taste like roast veal! This collection has over 6000 such facts and is fun to read at anytime of the day or evening.
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Summary: Ripley?s Buy It or Not? You should!
Review: This is definitely the most interesting encyclopedia of facts out there. The cover makes this stand out alone with a hologram of a guy moving up and down stairs on his head. There?s over 6000 facts in here, some you will have already seen if you?ve been to a Ripley?s museum, but a lot you won?t have.There?s stuff such as the sailing ship (Eclipse) that was hit by a meteorite out in the Pacific Ocean. The funniest entires in here are real life grave stones such as Here Lies the Body of Jonathan Blake, Stepped on the Gas Instead of the Brake. You?ll also see photographs of stuff like the world?s biggest broom and smallest violin as well as hotels shaped like elephants. Read about the guy who returned a library book his grandfather borrowed that was 145 years overdue and was fined $22, 646. There?s so much to see and read in this huge encyclopedia. You have to own it.
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Summary: Ripley¿s Buy It or Not? You should!
Review: This is definitely the most interesting encyclopedia of facts out there. The cover makes this stand out alone with a hologram of a guy moving up and down stairs on his head. There's over 6000 facts in here, some you will have already seen if you've been to a Ripley's museum, but a lot you won't have. There's stuff such as the sailing ship (Eclipse) that was hit by a meteorite out in the Pacific Ocean. The funniest entires in here are real life grave stones such as Here Lies the Body of Jonathan Blake, Stepped on the Gas Instead of the Brake. You'll also see photographs of stuff like the world's biggest broom and smallest violin as well as hotels shaped like elephants. Read about the guy who returned a library book his grandfather borrowed that was 145 years overdue and was fined $22, 646. There's so much to see and read in this huge encyclopedia. You have to own it.
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