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Title: The 500 Best Urban Legends Ever! by Yorick Brown, Mike Flynn ISBN: 0-7434-4539-2 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting Topic -- Poor Delivery
Comment: There are 500 stories in this 250 page volume. Each story is less than a page and recounts a tale that has been told enough times that some people believe it to be true (i.e. alligators in the sewers).
While the topic is an interesting one, the writer's delivery is dry and sporadic. There seem to be more details in stories set in England than elsewhere. Overall there seems to be a strong English slant to the tales.
The stories are roughly grouped into categories such as Accidents, Medical, Criminal, Miscellaneous, and Sex. Many of these seem to have been randomly place and would fit better in a different category.
Are they really legends? No. While some of the tales are classic urban legends (although in variations I have never heard before), some of the stories have other origins. At least on tale is true and can be verified in the local papers (I won't tell you which one). Others have been lifted straight from old movies and television shows (many decades old that is). Maybe in England they don't know the origins of these particular tales, but American audiences will probably now where they were taken from.
If you are looking for a good collection of Urban Legends, this is certainly a cheap one, but it is not a particularly good one.
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Title: Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand, Jan Harold Brunwand ISBN: 0393323587 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Spiders in the Hairdo, Modern Urban Legends by David Holt, Bill Mooney, William Mooney, Kevin Pope ISBN: 0874835259 Publisher: August House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand ISBN: 039332088X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That Are Absolutely, Positively, 100% Not True by Richard Roeper ISBN: 1564144992 Publisher: New Page Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully Persistent Myths of Films, Television, and Music by Richard Roeper ISBN: 1564145549 Publisher: New Page Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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