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Summary: Recycling their material
Review: I can't imagine anybody not liking this book. It's candy for the mind. While they suggest that you put a copy in your bathroom for reading upon the throne, I'm pretty sure that anybody who starts reading it while taking care of business will keep reading it afterwards (after washing their hands, of course).I'll admit that some of the information in the Bathroom Reader series is inaccurate. For example, in the "Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader" book, they said that the most commonly used letters in the English language were, in order, ETAOINSKRDLU. The "K" should have been an "H". However, there's so much material in these books, covering such a wide variety of topics, that it would be impossible for them to get everything right. To me, the main value of this book is to expose me to new topics that I didn't even know could be interesting. I think that the highest compliment you can pay to a book is that when you flip over the last page, you wish you could have that experience all over again. Since there are several BR books, you can certainly do that! One thing deserves mention: the creators of these books do not skimp. They cram every page full of reading matter. They seemed determined to replace "whitespace" with information. What can I say? Buy this book!
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Summary: Whip Out That Credit Card and Buy This Book!
Review: I can't imagine anybody not liking this book. It's candy for the mind. While they suggest that you put a copy in your bathroom for reading upon the throne, I'm pretty sure that anybody who starts reading it while taking care of business will keep reading it afterwards (after washing their hands, of course). I'll admit that some of the information in the Bathroom Reader series is inaccurate. For example, in the "Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader" book, they said that the most commonly used letters in the English language were, in order, ETAOINSKRDLU. The "K" should have been an "H". However, there's so much material in these books, covering such a wide variety of topics, that it would be impossible for them to get everything right. To me, the main value of this book is to expose me to new topics that I didn't even know could be interesting. I think that the highest compliment you can pay to a book is that when you flip over the last page, you wish you could have that experience all over again. Since there are several BR books, you can certainly do that! One thing deserves mention: the creators of these books do not skimp. They cram every page full of reading matter. They seemed determined to replace "whitespace" with information. What can I say? Buy this book!
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Summary: useless, but entertaining, facts
Review: The bathroom readers series are light-hearted, easy to read, and enjoyable entertainment, with subjects ranging from presidential political funnies to strange marriage proposals. Great reading for men and women alike!
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Summary: Uncle John's Best Book
Review: The person who gave the scathing review in February is mistaken. I have all of the Bathroom Readers and there are hardly any repeats in the ones that say "All-new" on the cover. (Every once in a while, they goof, but they've probably done over 10.000 pages so far, so i can forgive a few flubs.) Absolutely Absorbing is the best all-new edition so far as far as I'm concerned. It's both funny and thought-provoking, and has some of their best articles ever (Movie Star for a Day, Coined by Shakespeare, The Margarine Wars, and hundreds more). Any Bathroom Reader is great, but it seems like they were really on their game when they made this one!
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Summary: Uncle John's Best Book
Review: The person who gave the scathing review in February is mistaken. I have all of the Bathroom Readers and there are hardly any repeats in the ones that say "All-new" on the cover. (Every once in a while, they goof, but they've probably done over 10.000 pages so far, so i can forgive a few flubs.) Absolutely Absorbing is the best all-new edition so far as far as I'm concerned. It's both funny and thought-provoking, and has some of their best articles ever (Movie Star for a Day, Coined by Shakespeare, The Margarine Wars, and hundreds more). Any Bathroom Reader is great, but it seems like they were really on their game when they made this one!
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book will keep you entertained for the whole bathroom-break with very interesting articles, and tiny factoids at the bottom of each page. This is the kind of book that man loves, because it is almost like TV. It keeps your attention with interesting facts and things like that that will make you surprised. Buy this today and you will be entirely satisfied.
Rating:
Summary: Great!
Review: This book will keep you entertained for the whole bathroom-break with very interesting articles, and tiny factoids at the bottom of each page. This is the kind of book that man loves, because it is almost like TV. It keeps your attention with interesting facts and things like that that will make you surprised. Buy this today and you will be entirely satisfied.
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Summary: Entertaining "absorbing" Reading Material for the Throne Roo
Review: This is a great book to keep in the latrine. I have found myself spending more time on the throne than needed because I get so absorbed in this book. It offers amusing or serious short to long stories and facts to suite the occasion. Definite recommend.
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Summary: Entertaining "absorbing" Reading Material for the Throne Roo
Review: This is a great book to keep in the latrine. I have found myself spending more time on the throne than needed because I get so absorbed in this book. It offers amusing or serious short to long stories and facts to suite the occasion. Definite recommend.
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Summary: Recycling their material
Review: While this series of books is fun at times, the
fact that the editors are recycling more and more
material from their earlier books is starting to get
annoying. Come on guys, it's cheating to quote from
your own books! Make the books smaller if you have
to, but keep it truly all new.
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