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Title: The Best Book of Bizarre but True Stories Ever! by Mike Flynn ISBN: 1-85868-558-3 Publisher: Carlton Books, Ltd. Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: OK book... too bad it's mostly urban legend
Comment: Yes, the book is OK, but most of the stories here are supermarket tabloid headlines and urban legends.

Rating: 1
Summary: Was this book even editted?
Comment: This is yet another example of someone publishing "true" facts, before checking on their authenticity. Sometimes I wonder if editors even exist anymore for a number of newspapers and books, given the number of false stories touted as true. Regarding this particular book, you can check out its stories at www.snopes.com, which prints the research and checkable sources for each of their "is it true or not" determinations re urban legends such as those contained in this book. (E.g., the one in the book re someone who strapped a super-powerful engine to the top of their car, ignited it, and crashed into a cliff; FALSE, and confirmable as false EASILY by checking the sources listed by snopes.)

Save your money and don't buy this book, unless you just want to amuse yourself with some made up stories. (Some people seem to LOVE that, given that they forward e-mails of stories such as those in this book, without bothering to do even the easiest research to see if the story is true.)

Rating: 2
Summary: Tall Tales---Mostly Not True
Comment: This book is jammed with stories drenched in IRONY...more than humor. Few (if any) stories are true. Some of the tales are recognizably taken from news stories, but were so greatly embellished as to be mostly fiction. The stories are oddball, but disappointing overall. Few envoke even a smile. The author and publisher insult their reader's intelligence by labeling these preposterous tall tales as true.

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