The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books

by Compact Classics

Great gift idea. The other 'Great American Bathroom Books' by Compact Classics are out of print. Volume 1 has sold over one million copies. This edition replaces the prior Volume 1. 608 pages; bright... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880184044
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Scarab Book Limited
• Length: 557 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.3" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

The Title Says It All

This is THE BEST book for your bathroom. It was a permanent fixture at my grandparents' house, so I bought one for myself when I became an adult. There are several different sections of the book, all of which are informative and educational. This is a great book to have if you want to know a little bit about everything: the rules of football, the plot summary & commentary of To Kill A Mockinbird, the lifetime achievements of Ghandi, etc.

Great to Deploy With

I'm retired from the US military. When I was deployed on Operation Joint Endeavor in support of the Bosnia mission - I tucked this book into my ruck sack. The book was well read not only by myself but by others in the unit. The once-over-the-world summaries gave a much better understanding of books and plays we would otherwise not have read. My thanks to the author.

Refresher

This book is a great for refreshing your memory about general knowledge. It surely helps pass that time on the throne.

A Great Book and Very Fun to Read If You're on the GO

This is a very, very good book, especially the first volume. The basic concept of the book is this: 90 percent of the book is devoted to short 2 page summaries of great books. For example, the first volume has summaries of books such as "Lord of the Flie" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". The book is divided into many sections such as Classics, Science Fiction, Self Improvement, and Managmant, and Biographies.The other 10 percent is devoted to quotes or anecdotes from many famous people on various topics such as problem solving and happiness. The last section is usually a section with many intersting facts and statistics. It is basically a quiz section. The Great American Bathroom is also good if you have to do a book report and don't want to read the whole book. The book is basically good when you are very bored and have nothing to do.It is also very good for making you save time and not reading an entire self-help book when the key points are covered in 2 pages instead of 300 hundred pages such as in most self-help books.You can read it in the bathroom or on the bus. All in all this book is very good for the person on the run or the person looking for something fun to read. It is good and very fun.

High information density

I don't have the time or the motivation to read fiction or biography, but I yearn for cultural literacy. The Great American Bathroom Book fills my needs, with its well written summaries of well known books. In some cases, the summaries even make me want to read a whole book as in its compelling condensation of Life and Death in Shanghai or Not Without My Daughter.