| 1. |  | Encyclopedia of Immaturity (Klutz)
from Klutz
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
I bought this book as a gag gift for my secret santa because I figured I would try something different than the usual bath set this year, besides, who doesn't like to laugh? Well, when I started flipping through it I laughed so hard that I fell on the floor and bruised my tail bone! Ouch! No... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Cutting a Dash)
from BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Customer Review:
If you've been living in a cave, the subtitle explains what Eats, Shoots and Leaves is about: "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." Since I'm a bit of a grammar geek (albeit an imperfect and occasionally lazy one), I absolutely loved it.
There wasn't much that was news to me. Ones vs.... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes
from Collins
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I bought a copy of this book as a gift for a friend who teaches college English. She was so thrilled with it that I got one for another friend who loves "words and phrases", and does quite a bit of speaking to groups.
Just reading through it is a pleasure, and the topical groupings make it... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. | ![]() | RULES OF THUMB PA (Rules of Thumb)
from Mariner Books
Customer Review:
that seems to have everything. Just a little book that has lots of useful and not so useful trivia in it. I saw it in another store and came to Amazon to buy it because I always get such great deals. It was worth the 8.95 I paid and he seemed to like it. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. | ![]() | Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book
from Harpercollins
Customer Review:
It's a fun, informative book that holds the interest of pre-teens and adults alike. I would recommend the whole series to everyone. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything
from Collins
Price: $11.65
Customer Review:
Mental Floss does great work. Their mag is funny and always loaded with useful information. This book is outstanding as well. It's more painless learning done in the same style as the magazine.
The text is layed out well in magazine style so it makes easy reading while standing in line or... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Devil's Dictionary
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $14.36
Customer Review:
Any reader,particularly of history by Ambrose Bierce,will greatly enjoy this book. Little wonder, Bierce (1842-1914),an American journalist,satirist -"it was said that a bad review from Bierce could break a writer's career;and writer of short stories who earned the nickname "Bitter Bierce"... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Roughing It (Signet Classics)
from New American Library
Price: $6.95
Customer Review:
I saw little of the wit Twain is known for in this book. It's filled with long dull passages about his dirty travels from one place to another. My least favorite Twain book. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Best Book of Useless Information Ever
from Perigee Trade
Price: $10.36
Customer Review:
Did you know squirrels account for over 1 million trees planted per year because they forgot where they buried the nuts? If you like trivial information that is fascinating, this is the book! Purchase the other one as well. I love it as well as my students! There's always a chuckle to be heard when... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. | ![]() | How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?: An Imponderables Book (Imponderables)
from Harpercollins
Customer Review:
great book lots of interesting and some non information, everyone will find something in it they wondered | 4.5 / 5.0
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