The book of all books!

[Flying Illini]

For those of you who are looking for something to do during your down time, here it is.

"Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader" by the Bathroom Reader's Institute.

This book is number 12 in their series but I love it! It is filled with facts (good for winning those radio contests asking for random facts) and stories. It's a great read for the bathroom or for the flight crew b/c you can stop reading it at any point and come right back to it. I've always hated having to interrupt myself right in the middle of an action sequence.

How else would I know that the sale of melons saw an astronomical increase in sales when smaller melons were introduced in the market. The reason: Women shoppers subconciously compared the size of the melons to their breast size. These shoppers would not buy melons that were larger than their melons.

I wish I was getting paid for this shameless plug...

Happy reading!
[annual odds of dying by falling from your bed: 2 in 1 million]

 

[avbug]

Someone gave me a copy, and it's sitting in my bathroom. However, having browsed through it, some of the information thee is definitely not well researched, and is inaccurate or wrong.

 

[Flying Illini]

really?! That's a little disappointing if what you say is true, avbug. They site most of their information (usually they just pull blurbs from other books so that could mean alot of books are wrong.) Oh well, I enjoy fiction and non-fiction! My guess would have to be that most of the info is true.

 

[A Squared]

Well, it's kinda like the news, or lm boyd's trivia column. I've notice that when either mention something I have a detailed understanding of (aviation, for example) it's almost always slightly inaccurate, and frequently very inaccurate. So it makes you theink, what about all the stuff I read that I don't really know about. My assumption is that it is equally inaccurate, I just don't have the knowledge to see the inaccuracy. I would imagine hte the same concept would apply to that book. It's still fun to read that kind of stuff, just take it as entertainment.

 

[Typhoon1244]

It's a book intended to stay in the bathroom...I don't think integrity of research was a big priority.