The Great American Bathroom Book (Gabb)

by Stevens W. Anderson

Book Overview

The second volume of the best-selling series ‘The Great American Bathroom Book’ is here – only available in Kindle!‘The Great American Bathroom Book: Vol. 2’ brings you more than 170 summaries of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880184109
• ISBN13: 9781880184103
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Compact Classics
• Length: 626 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

After every flush, I come out of the john a bit lighter and more cultured

There is another bathroom book by "Uncle John," which is much more trivia oriented. I like that book quite a bit, too, but it's more fluff than education. Personally, I like this literature series much better. I tend to finish only about one page in one sitting, if even that much, but a bookmark helps me keep track of what I was reading. While I understand that summaries won't do the actual books justice, especially since we're really dependent on the writer to summarize accurately, I still find them very entertaining and helpful. I tend to stick to literature and not so much the summaries of religious thought since I think being objective about religions is a more difficult task for many authors. For instance, this author mistakenly claims that there are no real differences between mainstream Christianity and Mormonism even though the theological differences are so vast as to be irreconcilable. So take these summaries with a grain of salt as to their accuracy. Regardless, the overall work on the literatures is very well done, and the most enjoyable reading for me comes from that area.

Everyone should have the whole set

Okay - Where else are you going to be able to read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand in 5 minutes? Granted, you lose some of the nuances, and finer details which often times make a book a novel, but if you haven't read these classics, don't really have the time to read the whole novel, and you feel you've missed out as a result -- then this lexicon of classics is for you. GABB has listings for everything from religions to quotations to one-sitting readings of classic summaries. Highly recommended.

The BEST book

Quite possibly the best kept secret on shelves of bookstores today! I absolutely agree 100% with the reviewer who wrote, A Wall Of Books In The Palms Of Your Hands" . I couldn't have said it better. A joy to read. Especially when I'm not feeling well or traveling, I put this book in my messenger bag and get lost in its engaging summaries of all manner of famous books. I also love the quotes sections. LOVE IT.

A Wall Of Books In The Palms Of Your Hands

I read a rather snooty review of Book One and wondered why an individual like that would bother to read such a book as this? Well, I am not like that person. For me, this series of books is wonderful. Most of all, it satisfies my need for a wide span of general knowledge and also of trivia. There is a personal satisfaction in knowing a little something about a whole lot of things. If you are reading this review, you are the type of person that has heard of most of these summary titles but never read most of them. Maybe you skimmed it in high school or college and wrote a book report on it. Or, the title was on your college "reading list." Maybe your dad read that book when he was a little boy. Read it now! Or, at least the summary. Besides book summaries, there are lots of other little bits of data. I read incessantly and I have used these book summaries to decide on which books I want to read in toto. Perfect for people that expect to wait in an airport or a doctor's office, or outside the mall for your spouse. I even bought a book cover that conceals that it is a "Bathroom Book".

Even Better Than The Original

It's just brimming with humor and drama, hundreds more of the world's best books trimmed down to easy-to-read two-page summaries. Read "War and Peace" "The Stand," even The Bible in twelve minutes! Dozens of literary classics, as well as classic plays, operas, world religions, amusing quotes, anecdotes, philosophy, trivia galore, Shakespeare, Salinger, Confucious, and every other important author around can be found here. Wonderful for leisure reading, brushing up on your cultural literacy, preparing for a movie, or refreshing your memory about a book you read a long time ago. This book is for any occasion.