Bat Boy Lives!: The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks That Shape Our

by David Perel and Weekly World News

Book Overview

All the news that's not fit to print! Browse through this fascinating compendium of the best of the Weekly World News and you'll never look at the world the same way again. Admit it. You've sneaked a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402728239
• ISBN13: 9781402728235
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Very Fun

If you love "the news", you'll love this book. It's a great collection of recent top stories. The continued coverage of Bat Boy is great.

Guilty, guilty pleasure!

The Weekly World News tabloid has long been the standard to which "yellow journalism" should aspire! No glossy color pages, no boring celebrity gossip, just the news of the weird, wacky and wonderful! Alien faces on Mars, the pin-up bimbo of the week on page 3, and the odd ball news report that you just happen to KNOW is true! Not to mention some of the oddest oddball "advice" columnists and psychics........ The Weekly World News is published someplace (not here, Britain?) and the news stories rarely carry a location or a date. BUT you should never let small details like that stand in the way of good solid sensationalistic reporting! The Weekly World News has been a guilty pleasure of mine for a long time.....now those who are too embarrassed to buy it at the supermarket checkout stand can order a copy of this "BEST OF" book in a plain brown wrapper to be delivered to the privacy of your very own home! ENJOY!

Funny, funny stuff

Before the Onion, before the SNL news, there was the Weekly World News, which has always had the balls to print the news the so-called establishment won't touch. Alas, the courage and journalistic integrity of the WWN reporters has been criminally underappreciated--until now. BAT BOY LIVES! is a hilarious colllection of the best of more than two decades of WWN articles. Do yourself a huge favor and install one of these books on your coffeetable or in your bathroom immediately--heck, they're cheap, so get two and give the other one to your uncle Milt, who's always seemed a little...not of this world.

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for alienkind.

After discovering New York-brewed Schaefer beer cans left on the moon, I and other space experts have come to believe that aliens are truly among us. They have invaded our lives in ways we could have only previously imagined--with the help of L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, of course. WWN's Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World is the definitive source of "need-to-know" facts to share with friends at the bar or as a guest at a formal dinner party. Each thoroughly-researched article will give you pause to enter that 4th dimension we often find elusive in today's fast-paced techno-weeny environment.

I didn't know there were so many things I didn't know!

It's not just for aliens anymore! What used to be the curriculum of supermarket tabloid shoppers has been transformed into an eye-candied expose of yesterday, today and tomorrow's feature stories. Complete with charts and graphs Tufte would be proud of--and even a sexy fold-out centerfold, Bat Boy Lives! would make anyone's WC *the* place to be for news and views. --Jeff, filled with odd knowledge in NYC, October 27, 2005