The Big Sleep: True Tales and Twisted Trivia About Death
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1885843097 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 171 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Mike Tribby. Of course, lots of the information is anecdotal, and the bibliography includes sources mildly fraudulent (e.g., Ripley of "Believe It or Not" fame) and professionally skeptical (e.g., James Randi), but those things indicate the kind of eclectic fun the little book affords. From Booklist Answering our seemingly inexhaustible fascination with death, Orloff and Baker offer a slim compendium of facts, observations, lists, and general oddments. Withall, this is a lighthearted collection of morbid minutiae--similar, perhaps, to the novelty best-seller of many years ago, 101 Uses for a Dea
Exactly how many ways are there to kill a vampire? What famous choreographer died from a form of Mad Cow Disease? How many people died from drowning in a tragic beer accident in 1814? What happens during an autopsy? Why was Charlie Chaplin's corpse kidnapped? A What president haunts the White House? From the deaths of famous celebrities and politicians to some of the weirdest deaths on record.
This book is great for keeping in your bag and reading while you're The book is interesting. Unfortunately, I agree with one of the other reviewers who thought it written in a "cute" style. Death should be fascinating and informative. But this book skips over a lot of information for the sake of the cuteness and gives factually inaccurate info in order to keep the reader interested. This book is great for keeping in your bag and reading while you're waiting for a doctor's appt. But for factually accurate interesting writing on death, it greatly disappoints.. Not worth it. I enjoyed the authors' snarky, irreverent tone. ("Aztec society, known for its human sacrifices, made distinctions of which direction you traveled after death depending on how you died. Human sacrifices went east to paradise and got to enjoy the sun. Seems a high price to pay for a tan.") But that doesn't change the fact that the book was very sloppily researched and contains dozens of inaccuracies. There are better books of death trivia out there, such as This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go and After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses.. "Cover to cover, you'll be fascinated and amazed with death." according to A Customer. Do you have any thoughts on how you will leave this Earth? After reading this book, you will most certainly question the thought. You will read and re-read chapters with such curiosity. Examples of freak accidents, gruesome serial slayings, Mother Nature, plagues and epidemics, poltergiest, genocide, and Spontaneous Human Combustion just name a few of the documented stories covered. This light-hearted book is full of death stories, ancient traditions, and phenomina. If nothing else, you'll be wondering how you will go. As it is, all life does come to an end. Oh yeah - intereste