Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

We're back again, overflowing with great new material for a third volume of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. No more frantic searches at the last minute for that perfect magazine article. No agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. Volume three has it all-Entertainment, humor, politics, pop culture, science, history, gossip...And more! Of course, it's still divided by length-you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Regular-Length articles, or get really comfortable with Long Items.

With Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader strategically placed in your home, you'll settle in happily and read about:

-The origin of Rocky and Bullwinkle
-The Rolling Stones' Big Ripoff
-The Real Story of Cinderella
-Dick Nixon, Football Coach
-Censorship in America
-What's in a Twinkie
-Elvis Sightings
-And a Host of Great Bathroom Topics!

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Trivia, Reference

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1990

About the author

The Bathroom Reader's Institute UJBR boasts more than 12 million books in print and a membership base topping 40,000 loyal readers . . .

Reviews

[Gord Beacock · Rating 3 out of 5]

From the back cover:
For years, the Bathroom Reader's Institute has researched your bathroom reading habits in an attempt to understand an serve the interests of America's forgotten readers.
This is from issue #3. Not #10. Not #30. #3. Maybe they didn't think they would last much longer.

[Bob Cantrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is trivia. What more is there to say? Well just fun for all is what. More trivia, more trivia, more trivia is what you get.

[LB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes trivia is just what you need. This book had trivia for all different tastes.

[D. W. Hershey · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 77%

An OK book about basic trivia that eventually gets derailed by annoying elements, becoming too unbearable at the 3/4 mark.

It is an older book, and many of the references are for a generation a few ahead of mine.

You can safely flush this one down the toilet.

[Mark Oppenlander · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few things I learned from this edition of the series:

- The battle at the Alamo was fought as much over the rights of slaveowners to keep slaves as it was over freedom and independence for Texans; Mexico abolished slavery before the US did.
- There is a good chance that Bob Dylan didn't write "Blowin' in the Wind." Instead it was probably written by a high school kid from New Jersey.
- There are more than 2600 species of frogs.
- It is unlikely that Thomas Jefferson ever said "The government is best which governs least;" historians can find no evidence for this.
- "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," was a real person.
- Lyndon Johnson stole his first election with the help of crooked law enforcement officials in Texas.
- Baseball was not invented in America.

I still cling to the belief that there is no such thing as useless information - although this series of trivia books certainly pushes the limits of that theory. :-)

[Steven Jay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent edition of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader!

Among the stuff in this edition:

- Moore To Come: Facts behind the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”
- Mars Attacks: The hysteria brought on by the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
- Bewitched: Facts behind the TV show “Bewitched”.
- Public Enemy #1: A short criminal history of John Dillinger & his eventual takedown.
- Landslide Lyndon: The most obvious case of election fraud which won Lyndon B. Johnson a seat in the Senate in 1948.

And standard UJBR staples such as:
Common Phrases
Prime Time Proverbs
Celebrity Quotes

AND MORE!

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read all 25! Love them!

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just okay. I'd like to see the newer books.