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

by Jamie Frater (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
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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 world: 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.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OU0YGAQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (September 26, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1248 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

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Jamie Frater was born in Naenae, a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, in 1974. He studied postgraduate music at the Royal College of Music in London, after which, due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts, he created listverse.com where he presents a new top ten list every day. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations in the United States and Great Britain. Jamie now writes full-time for his California-based website from his home.

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Elaine Le
5.0 out of 5 stars Listverse.com 10 Reasons Why You Should Pick up the Astounding Bathroom Reader
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015
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10 Reasons Why You Should Pick Up the Astounding Bathroom Reader
(1) Trivia Factoids.
(2) The outrageous and random lists listverse.com assembles in this book.
(3) Straight up the title: "Astounding Bathroom Reader"
(4) Conversation topics for cocktail parties to be that pretentious prick we all love/hate
(5) Look at that cover art!
(6) The number 10. An easy amount for you to remember...more than a handful, less than a dozen.
(7) The off the wall topics - executions? Super power of dolphins? SOLD.
(8) A little bit of history.
(9) The humors titles of the lists.
(10) Read it because I said so!

I love trivia nights at bars. I was looking into a book to read on my iphone during my commute (I live in SF and bart my way to work) and I decided to pick up listverse.com for some light fun reading. I also was hoping to gain some new trivia facts to have up my sleeve for the next trivia night I attend. Hell, I'll admit it, I'm that weirdo at cocktail parties that loves to say, hey, did you know that...<insert fun factoid here>.

I thoroughly enjoyed this "bathroom reader." As an avid reader, I love reading anything and everything. As a trivia nut and a reader, I love these easy and fun read. The book contained great trivia tidbits and blurbs giving you the history and story behind the trivia. It didn't just spit trivia out at me but gave me more of a story. It was super fun and entertaining. I love the way the book was organized in lists of 10. So many fun facts that I had no idea of. The grouping makes everything easier to remember and tie together which is great for trivia reasons. Also you have tgot to love the groupings, the people at listverse.com have a sense of humor for sure as evidence in their list titles-- come on, "10 Suicide Stories With an Incredible Happy Ending." I had not heard of listverse.com before and after buying this kindle book, I've been perusing the site and having a blast. I'm a lover of making lists so I dig picking up a book filled with factoids and stories in list forms. It was a fun and informative read. Definitely going to pick up some more listverse.com books for my commute reading.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Lists! Glorious Lists!
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015
Listverse.com's Outstanding Bathroom Reader takes unique topics and brings them together for easy perusing whether one is in the bathroom, taking a break with light reading or sharing fun facts during a road trip.
Listeverse.com combines these topics to create interesting reading faire. The topics, submitted by different authors, offer lists as light as "Amazing Dolphin Superpowers" to controversial lists like "10 Misconceptions About Jesus." Regardless of the topic, reading though the list, a reader will more than likely be able to take something away that they didn't know previously. It even sparks communication. I shared these lists with a friend as we drove to a weekend getaway.
Lists are fun. Point blank. However, I usually get tired of reading the same old thing, just reformatted for different media. I can honestly say that reading this book has given me good information to put to future use! I didn't know that North Korea celebrated a holiday other than Christmas in December and bet many a reader didn't know that either. A good list compilation not only talks about the silly topics, but expands the reader's view of the world. The lists on teenage military readers read like a fun history lesson. Would read other listverse.com in the future.
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Elizabeth Elle
5.0 out of 5 stars lists for days!
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2015
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No lie: I LOVE LISTS! I think they’re so fun. I spend time on Buzzfeed and YouTube watching list videos. I was so excited to see this book, filled with lists! I’m so happy to say that this book is just great. This book proclaims itself as a bathroom reader, so that’s where I put it- and my friends constantly exit the bathroom with a smile and tell me that they love the book! I’ve even had friends in other conversations bring up facts they read in the book- “did you know that dolphins don’t sleep for the first month of their life?” It’s filled with interesting lists, not just silly or funny. There are historical and scientific facts, and some plain horrifying ones (botched executions, failed attempts to heal children with faith, horrible things that happen to prisoners... Terrible, but fascinating.) There are even some facts on the Bible and Jesus! No matter how different they are from each other, they are ALL interesting. My favorite lists include 10 Famous Quotes That No One’s Actually Said, 10 Astounding Ways Spiders Use Webbing, 10 Amazing Dolphin Superpowers and 10 Suicide Stories with an Incredibly Happy Ending. These lists are so interesting and fun- great book!
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Sadie Brooks
4.0 out of 5 stars Factoids and tidbits about things you've never imagined
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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This trivia book contains 17 different 10-item lists that cover a kind of crazy range of topics—like dolphin superpowers, teenage military leaders, and weird ways of measuring stuff—but that’s what makes it a pretty fun book to have around. Did you know that dolphins can withstand insane amounts of pain? Or just how frequently in recent history parents (we’re talking 2009) have tried to faith-heal their children’s physical problems like a burst appendix? Did you know that someone predicted the future existence of TV and cell phones in 1900? These are just some of the weird factoids you’ll pick up in this little bathroom reader.

My only complaint about this book is how short it is: 17 lists suddenly doesn’t seem like very many when you realize you’ve already gotten through them all! But I guess there are a bunch of books like this from Listverse.com that are longer, and of course there’s the actual website. But I like that this bathroom reader is the kind of thing I can just pick up any time I have a few minutes to fill and I can start reading anywhere. Who knows—you might learn something that will come up in your next game of Trivial Pursuit!
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3.0 out of 5 stars good book but not as readable as the uncle johns ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2014
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good book but not as readable as the uncle johns bathroom readers which anyone wanted this sort of book would be better buying
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