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Title: Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them) by Gregory Arthur Baer ISBN: 1-59240-033-7 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really wonderful
Comment: I was given this book as a present and I love it -- it's been a joy to read! I found it to be not only fun and VERY funny, but very interesting as well. It's the perfect holiday gift for smart friends and family, and for people who need a break from the more stressful side of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting stuff, and funny too
Comment: I got this for birthday, after my sister read a review in the Chicago Tribune. I got a kick out of learning a bunch of cool facts, and telling people at work. Some chapters were really funny (dating a supermodel) but others were really interesting (the ones on space, like the odds of finding intelligent life in the universe, or the earth being destroyed by an asteroid). I thought the chaper on penis size was going to be silly, but the research was actually scientific. (Hint: the average is smaller than most people think.) The whole thing was pretty funny.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining, not particularly "funny"
Comment: I'm surprised other reviews qualify this book as riotously funny.
It isn't.
Case in point, discussing the odds of finding a four leaf clover, he describes a particular member of the plant's family as "a genetic mutation, like Carrot Top". Oh! Oh ho ho. A jab at Carrot Top! What wit!
The book is full of these weak attempts, and I don't recall a single one that made me laugh. A few chuckles, but it was almost painful, like watching a standup comic trying too hard. It wasn't even "So bad it's funny", it went beyond that, to the point where it's just not good.
The book IS interesting, and makes great bathroom reading (something the author seems a little proud of in the introduction), but it is entertaining despite the lame attempts at humor, not because of them.
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Title: What Are The Odds? : Chance In Everyday Life by Mike Orkin ISBN: 0716735601 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Greatest Stories Never Told : 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer ISBN: 0060014016 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: What Are the Chances: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability by Bart K. Holland ISBN: 0801869412 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You by David Ropeik, George Gray ISBN: 0618143726 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead by David Callahan ISBN: 0151010188 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 26 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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