The Ultimate Book of Useless Information: A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (But Probably Don't)

by Noel Botham

Book Overview

Bigger, better, and more useless than ever!

In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating, hilarious, and wholly trivial findings. The Ultimate Book of Useless Information includes such "did you knows" as:

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001IDZJV8
• ISBN13: 9780399533501
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Tarcherperigee
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

great gift

This book is great for those hard to buy for men on your list. I enjoyed thumbing through it before I wrapped it too. Inexpensive and fun.

Add this to your shopping list!

You could live without this book. But, why would you want to? Why not possess more than 200 pages of useless information at your fingertips that are guaranteed to amaze, amuse and confuse your friends and family. Documentation of the highest quality here enables you to name the fear of haircuts, define a dilemma with a third alternative, ask yourself why you probably enjoy on a daily basis a tasty treat that contains the ingredient usually found in car wax, etc. Yes, clearly, this is a book that you cannot live without.

Great for quiz masters

This is a delightful book of trivia and would make a great resource for anyone planning to be a quiz master. It made me laugh out loud but it is not without some mistakes. e.g. Scotland is not listed among European countries bordered by only one country. But I love it.

Interesting and Clean

Some friends of mine showed this book to me, and although I haven't read through it all the way, I have found quite a few interesting facts - ranging from meaningful to funny and none of which I knew before. That is the interesting part and it keeps me reading on for more facts. The clean part is that I haven't found anything off-color, so it should be fine for families.