Listverse.com's Astounding Bathroom Reader: Loads of Top Ten Lists About Dolphin Superpowers, Deadly Competitions, Pranks Gone Wrong and Much More Incredible Trivia

by Jamie Frater

Crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities.Delving into the shocking side of pop culture, science, and history, Listverse.com’s Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists offers a wealth of fascinating reading with over 200 lists and more than 2,000 interesting facts. Movie buffs will be surprised by the list of crazy movie plots that actually happened in real life and the top-ten films that accurately predicted the future. Celebrity gawkers will do a double take at the list of famous people with secret physical deformities as well as the numerous celebs who have killed someone. Music fans will be set straight by the list of rock ‘n’ roll urban legends that never happened, and literary buffs will cringe at the greatest writers who had crippling drug addictions. List after amazing list will keep readers enthralled, revealing the many entertaining aspects of this wonderful strange Civil War weapons, stupid criminals who were captured after butt-dialed the police, bizarre things you can buy from vending machines, and even sex toys with ridiculously ancient origins.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2014

About the author

Jamie Frater started his professional life as a software developer until he abandoned it to do postgraduate studies in opera at the Royal College of Music in London. Due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts, he created Listverse and left the singing for the shower.

He currently divides his time between managing and editing for Listverse, learning about all things obscure, and trying to find time for a social life.

Reviews

[Sherrie Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars - again, I wish Goodreads would allow 1/2 star ratings. This is not quite a 4.

If you like trivia, you'll like this book. Lots of interesting tidbits in list form for a quick read and easy stopping places (I read at night before bed and like that I'm not tempted to read until dawn; also extends the pleasure of reading the trivia over a few days).

My problem with books such as these is usually the typos and formatting issues. I forgive a couple of typos here and there, but once it becomes repetitive, it effects my rating of the book. The one that really stood out was 'sherpa's'. The author obviously meant the plural of 'sherpa' but kept making it possessive. I kept wondering what the sherpa was taking ownership of. (There's a whole list on Mount Everest.)

Secondly was the supposed links. Throughout the book, it would say 'click here' to read more or to get more information, but there were no links. One broken link I'll understand, but there was no html at all. No underlining or way to 'click' on anything. You'd think if you're going to put out an ebook with links, you'd actually PUT THE LINKS IN.

So, overall, decent trivia but as a book editor myself, thet typos were tiring.