The Ultimate: The Great Armchair Debates Settled Once and for All
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Book Overview
A humorous trivia book that has the official and final word on what qualifies as the coolest, the best, the toughest, the most, and of course the ultimate. Readers will enjoy learning which rollercoaster is the best, and what was the most ingenious college prank. Those are only a sample of this trivia book that will entertain all readers.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0385242700
ISBN13:9780385242707
Release Date:September 1991
Publisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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Encyclopedias Humor Humor & Entertainment Humorous Puzzles & Games Reference TriviaCustomer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Despite not being a large book, this paperback makes a great "coffee table" book in the sense that it is great to leave laying around to have guests browse through. Flipping it open, one finds such important questions as: who's the best baseball player? which art museum is best? addressed. These are all questions that people have idled away time answering; the value Poundstone adds is having researched them. He provides just enough information--even on topics for which I don't have much expertise I found his commentary interesting. Even for those who don't care about the details the book is worth flipping through to see the comparative charts and conclusions.Some of his choices of important questions to answer seem a bit odd (what's the most difficult shot in billiards) but even these result in a brief, interesting chapter devoted to some topic I'd never previously pondered.
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