The Giant Bathroom Reader: Dip Into a Compendium of Useless Knowledge, Hilarious Facts, and Bizarre Trivia

by Karl Shaw

This book is a collection of The ODDEST...the WEIRDEST...the most AMAZING facts and feats from all over the world Graham "Cutter" Carter, the bespectacled careers adviser, who used to cut large circles from the backs of women's skirts in central London. WEIRD ANIMAL The pigs whose own methane, ignited by a spark, exploded their shed in Verona, Italy, killing them all.INCREDIBLE URBAN What is the curse that hangs over the US presidency? POTTY FROM AROUND THE Kiss the hand that cannot bite (Romania); Thrash your apprentice while he has not yet broken the water jug (Bulgaria).Astonishing royal during a visit to Germany, Peter of Russia's son used his hosts' curtains as a stand-in for toilet paper. Zany sporting The French dwarf who won the right to be thrown across rooms for his living after appealing against the French governments ban on "dwarf tossing". Jokes of the A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says. "Why the long face?" From elk-dropping earrings to radioactive watches, a wealth of information, all of it incredible, much of it improbable, but all of it true. Be amazed, be appalled, but, above all, be enthralled by this cornucopia of craziness.

Genres: Trivia, Nonfiction, Humor

Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Karl Shaw writes humour and popular non-fiction titles including the New York Timss bestsellers Royal Babylon and 5 People Who Died During Sex. His most recent is the acclaimed historic true crime thriller The Killing of Lord George: A Tale of Murder and Deceit in Edwardian England.

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This complication book to read on the toilet is a weak copy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers series. At least the Giant Bathroom Reader acknowledges that its content is stupid, although I do not necessarily want to read stupid stuff on the toilet.

The sections are very short, and I am glad this book realizes that some people read very slowly. However, the sections are completely random. Most are collections of useless gossip, but there is one chapter just about Rasputin. This book is empty, and despite the odd actual fact in there, might be better as toilet paper than bathroom reading.

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in a weeks stay over at a friends house three years ago. Oh what a delight. This will come in useful when you are having complications in the bathroom and you need to take your mind off the position and job. But don't get up. This book will have you going in no time from relaxing you with laughter.

[Ann Mansfield]

Funny, and great stuff I didn't know !!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is both morbid and entertaining. everyone should have one. lol!

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book of information!