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Title: 1,001 Facts Somebody Screwed Up by Deane Jordan ISBN: 1-56352-064-8 Publisher: Longstreet Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Dumb Stuff.
Comment: This book is a very poor piece of literature. A lot of the facts that the author says are false are true, and the author is wrong saying that they are false. There are many inaccuracies. Some of these are very much proven facts that the author claims are wrong. I believe it just the author giving his opinion on the things from what he believes to be true. Some of them on the other hand are false.
Rating: 4
Summary: All in fun
Comment: Some interesting twists and some corrections on what we mostly assumed to be true: This book is not intended for a serious debunking of popular myth. It is an enjoyable browse or a very fast read and could spark some arguments and debates.
My favorite on is the constantly perpetuated misinformation on the amount of iron in spinach. Sorry, Popeye!
Rating: 1
Summary: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Comment: This book proves the adage that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Many allegedly "screwed-up facts" are simply cute, too-clever-by half twists that the author has cooked up on familiar subjects, and many of these twists are just as screwed up as the facts that the author is allegedly debunking. For example, on page 2, the book asserts that "there are only forty-six states in the United States. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Massachusetts are commonwealths." Well, okay, those four states do call themselves commonwealths, but doing so obviously does not deprive them of statehood. (A "commonwealth" was simply a term popular in the eighteenth century, particularly around the time of American independence, for describing a political community whose form of government was based on the consent of the governed.) The book contains dozens, if not hundreds, of instances of equally threadbare research and thinking. The author offers no credentials, other than thanking a list of "Mensans" in his acknowledgments; and the book nowhere contains any citation, documentation, or other authority for its "facts," other than a barely page-long introduction in which the author writes that he relied on "encyclopedias, standard references, and specialists." The book's "facts" may supply fodder for some meagerly amusing cocktail-party conversation, but just don't start that conversation in a contentious crowd, because nobody will take your argument seriously if this book is all that is backing you up.
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Title: The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras ISBN: 0385483414 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story by Paul Harvey ISBN: 0553259628 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ever Wonder Why? by Douglas B. Smith ISBN: 0449147460 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race by Bob Fenster ISBN: 0740710028 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Paul Harvey's for What It's Worth by Jr. Paul Harvey ISBN: 0553296760 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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