The Everything Trivia Book

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Summary: This ain't the theme song from "The Brady Bunch"
Review: Pop culture may tell us more about our society than all the Ph.D. theses and historical abstracts churned out by Those Who (Supposedly) Know Such Things. In "The Everything Trivia Book" I tried to portray how those seemingly insignificant aspects of our daily life -- fast foods, kids' toys, comic book super-heroes, light bulb jokes -- actually form a clearer picture of who we are than a formal history book. Don't let this get around, but the twelve interlocking chapters that form this book are truly subvsersive. Oh, yeah, and they're also funny and twisted and baffling and challenging. If you don't believe me, turn to page 101.

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Summary: Not enough trivia
Review: This book contains too much extraneous text and not enough trivia. There is some interesting and unusual trivia in the book, though. Some of it seemingly would only be known by someone like this author, who seems to be a stereotypical 60's-era Hollywood insider.

Another word of caution: the author (for some unknown reason) seems intent upon injecting his own personal views into the book. The most telling example of this is when he refers to would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. as a "bad shot." That tells you all that you need to know about the political views that the author sneaks in throughout the book.

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Summary: Erroneous Triva Book
Review: This book is not entertaining at all, the author has a way of interjecting his own views into the facts, and some of the trivia is way off. The most offensive of these errors is when he quotes Lou Gherig as saying "I stand before you the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Are you an American? Even my 100 year old grandma knows that the baseball legend said "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." Not "the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Come on, man. Don't publish material you know nothing about. This book is a joke.

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Summary: Erroneous Triva Book
Review: This book is not entertaining at all, the author has a way of interjecting his own views into the facts, and some of the trivia is way off. The most offensive of these errors is when he quotes Lou Gherig as saying "I stand before you the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Are you an American? Even my 100 year old grandma knows that the baseball legend said "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." Not "the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Come on, man. Don't publish material you know nothing about. This book is a joke.

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Summary: Trivia with a left-wing bent...
Review: This is a slightly different kind of trivia book in that it is not just a "question and answer" book. It provides some text to go along with individual topics, and also, unfortuantely, an apparent political agenda. The author eveidently finds it necessary to intersperse some of his 60's-esque politcal and anti-Christian religious views into the book. It seems like a book written by a stereotypical Hollywood insider.

That said, the actual trivia in the book is not too bad. The reader gets the chance to learn some things that someone who is not an aged hippie would not otherwise know.

Rating:
Summary: Trivia with a left-wing bent...
Review: This is a slightly different kind of trivia book in that it is not just a "question and answer" book. It provides some text to go along with individual topics, and also, unfortuantely, an apparent political agenda. The author eveidently finds it necessary to intersperse some of his 60's-esque politcal and anti-Christian religious views into the book. It seems like a book written by a stereotypical Hollywood insider.

That said, the actual trivia in the book is not too bad. The reader gets the chance to learn some things that someone who is not an aged hippie would not otherwise know.