The Big Sleep: True Tales and Twisted Trivia about Death

by Joann Baker and Erica Orloff

Book Overview

A fun and wacky look at the one thing in life we can't escape! These true tales and twisted trivia about death cover serial killers, vampires, and ghosts. Facts you wouldn't know, and death tales you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517220482
• ISBN13: 9780517220481
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Till death do us part.... literally

I could not put this book down! Went through it in one sitting and I go back to it and read it again and again. When I'm not reading it, friends and family are always borrowing it. Full of facts and funnies.

This book is fascinating.

The Big Sleep is the kind of weird, funny, fascinating book that keeps you saying, "Just one more page." Some of those chapters really knocked me out . . . like "Death Styles of the Rich and Famous" or "Hell No, We Won't Go". It's far from some morose book on the realities of death. I loved the quotes, the jokes, and those incredible factoids. Hey, who knew that Balanchine died from a form of Mad Cow disease or that the Marquis de Sade died in an insane asylum. Crazy stuff.

Cover to cover, you'll be fascinated and amazed with death.

Do you have any thoughts on how you will leave this Earth? After reading this book, you will most certainly question the thought. You will read and re-read chapters with such curiosity. Examples of freak accidents, gruesome serial slayings, Mother Nature, plagues and epidemics, poltergiest, genocide, and Spontaneous Human Combustion just name a few of the documented stories covered. This light-hearted book is full of death stories, ancient traditions, and phenomina. If nothing else, you'll be wondering how you will go. As it is, all life does come to an end. Oh yeah - interested in learning what happens to a body within the first few weeks of death? Check it out!

Keeps you wanting more. Very interesting and amusing

This book was very interesting and keeps you wanting to read more. It's very well put together and I enjoyed it throughly. I look forward to more book by the authors.