Strange History (Strange Series)

Interesting facts to drop into dying conversations.

Two of my favorite topics - History and Strange stuff. Great combination here. I couldn't stop reading, but I didn't want it to end!

fun book for adults but good thing I read it before gifting it to my 11 yr old neighbor. Just enough inappropriate stuff to prevent me from giving it to him. It now lives in my bathroom for comedic reading:) I will pass along to my adult kids when finished.

You can tell from the content and writing style this book is from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader publisher. And that's a good thing. Strange History's content is OK. There there just isn't very much of it.A large percentage of the stories in it are very short - barely five or six paragraphs. Plus, there's a TON of white space on every page (extremely wide margins all around) and the title fonts for articles are so huge they seem to take up 20% of the page a lot of times. Between the short articles and abundance of white space, I found myself flying through this book.I'm giving this a four-star review because it was overall entertaining and it cost a lot less than the regular Uncle John books. Had they laid out the typography better, this book could have (should have?) been half as many pages. So my summary is you are getting what you pay for, just don't expect it to last you more than a few "sittings".

This was a delightful romp into the weird, the silly and the really interesting. I ended up reading about half of them out loud to a friend just to share how interesting their individual facts were. I found out the origins of at least a dozen things I'd never known before from other places. For example, when I saw the musical, "Cats," on verse of a song mentioned Duck Whittington. Not being British, I had no clue who he was. Now I know he was the mayor of London who was thought to have a magic cat who was responsible for using magic to get Whittington his job. What a cool story from history! Or how about learning that the first Thanksgiving actually happened in Texas in May of 1541, not November 1692 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It's terrific to know I'd be the same kind of problem parent my father was, telling my kid facts that contradict the teachers right and left! (LOL)This is a very handy book to keep around.

Interesting topics that can be read quickly with 1-2 pages at a time. Hubby declares it good bathroom reading.

I bought this for the dad but I ended up borrowing it myself. I love the small reads on history and fun facts. It is a great book for the light reader like myself. I enjoyed it and I wish there were other books like this I could get my hands on.

Thanks to NetGalley and Portable Press for the digital download of Strange History by Bathroom Readers Institute! This incredible book kept me reading from beginning to end and I finished it in one sitting because of its entertainment value! Strange History is a fact driven world history of slang, fads, quotes that stand the test of time, boring parts of history, historical food facts, styles and trends by decades, almost assassinations, misconceptions, freaky facts, made-up languages, obsolete words, real life Frankensteins and a bunch of other historical fact categories. I want to use this book for a jigsaw lesson to teach what facts can be found in the 000's section of the DEWEY Decimal System. Great entertainment

A very interesting read and fun

its a good read

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Though we have paid for the e book we do not know how it is received by us because you state that it will be sent to our kindle. If you have sent it, how do we know or how to we access it. Please guide.

Interesting!