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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I freaking love this book. I "borrowed" it from a church library when I was ten and have got hours of entertainment from it ever since. Ever wondered wanted to know 15 famous events that happened in the bath? Vincent Price's 10 favourite dinner guests from all history? 7 famous men who were full or part time virgins (John Ruskin is a personal favourite)? This is your book. Arch, entertaining and clever, this book assumes the same of it's reader. True, it's dated but that just makes it even more awesome. Somewhere in my copy OJ Simpson is the number one American hero. (  ) relah | Sep 6, 2009 |  This was the first reference book that "hooked me" as a teen. I bought my copy many years back and still have it since all these years. Madly habit forming and fascinating !! My absolute fav topic has to be the celebrity dinner guests, though I combed through everything more than once. A Must read for any curious and open minded person. (  ) barb92 | Aug 6, 2009 | Not really my cup of tea. These kind of books usually are, so I don't think it's the *book* per se, but the fact that it was written so long ago. Probably 80% of the lists in here had to do with shows/people/events that I've never heard of. I guess these kind of list books do get outdated eventually. (  ) Heather19 | Jun 7, 2009 | this is the 1977 version, and it has been updated since. The lists are many and varied. The more interesting items to me is when the editors take individuals knowledgeable in their fields and ask them for their "top 10" of whatever. For instance, Irving Stone has list of "the losers. 10 presidential canidates that lost that would have made better presidents than the winners." There is a ranking, too, of the top 31 presidents, in which John Kennedy's appears nowhere on the top 10 of the great and nearly great. In fact, it doesn't appear anywhere. Makes the whole book suspect to me. ( ) andyray | Nov 23, 2007 | This whole series was a lot of fun. The lists are out of date now, of course, but overall worth keeping in the bathroom for random reading. ( ) MerryMary | Mar 26, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0676977200, Paperback)A new edition of the classic bestseller from the original authors, with additional material specifically prepared for Canadian readers by long-time This Morning CBC producer, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow, the author of Wanted Words.In 1977, a publishing sensation was born. The Book of Lists, the first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, was published. Filled with intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia it has spawned many imitators — but none as addictive or successful. For nearly three decades since, the editors have been researching curious facts, unusual statistics and the incredible stories behind them. Now the most entertaining and informative of these have been brought together in a long-awaited, thoroughly up-to-date new edition that is also the first Canadian edition. Ira Basen and Jane Farrow have augmented the existing lists with fascinating homegrown material, and compiled lists specifically of relevance to Canadian readers. So if you’ve always wanted to find out how porcupines really mate, how comedy can kill and — that most essential piece of knowledge — how long the longest recorded nose was, this is the book for you. With contributions from a variety of celebrities and experts including Margaret Atwood, Mike Myers, Michael Ondaatje, Dave Eggers, Phillip Pullman and Charlotte Gray, this anthology has something for everyone — and more than you ever suspected you wanted to know. A list of lists from The Book of Lists: 10 Notable Film Scenes Left on the Cutting Room Floor 10 Afflictions and Their Patron Saints 14 Nations with More Sheep Than People 5 Trips to the Canadian Wilderness That Ended in Disaster 10 Really Bad Canadian Sports Teams 14 Last Words of Famous Canadians Kurt Browning’s 9 Turning Points in Figure Skating History 7 Trial Verdicts That Caused Riots 12 Museums of Limited Appeal 10 Unusual Canadian Place Names That Start with a “B” 7 Well-Known Sayings Attributed to the Wrong Person 10 Celebrated People Who Read Their Own Obituaries Sloane’s Jay Ferguson’s 10 Perfect Pop Songs 13 Possible Sites for the Garden of Eden 9 Canadian Sports Stars Who Became Politicians First Sexual Encounters of 13 Prominent Canadians (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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