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I listened to this on audiobook and I have to say this book really didn t lend itself all that well to that kind of format The text was very in sections and so jumped from one topic to the next very quickly This is okay as a trivia style book of which I read a lot of and enjoy but as an audiobook it just sounds abrupt disjointed and often confusing Just as you listen to one brief section about Topic A Topic B is upon you straight away and it is has nothing to do with the previous topic and before you can digest that here comes the next topic The other downside was that the narrator had an odd cadence At times he sounded very stilted in the way he pronounced some words. A people's history of the peculiars summary pdf The upside this book at least felt like a taster It piqued my interest in many subjects I have only vague knowledge of It has inspired me to go and find out of the various topics the author covered in this book and I take that as being a good thing 1936740834 I don t get itReading the description of this book I ordered it immediately The praise for the book at the start was glowing. Book A People's History of the peculiarly So why don t I understand the point of the book I like knowing the why of things but I m not quite finding it here So I thought I d jump around nope that s not working for me at all I end up thinking Ya so The writing is ok not too many typos if you re bothered by that I am I will try some but I don t hold any hope that I ll like it any better 1936740834 Those who check out my book reviews must become discouraged sometimes because I usually love the books I read and rate them highly Fear not my friends I have read this non fiction book about trivial things and found it worse than trivial. A people's history of the peculiar fiction free The book did start out well with items from history considering among other things whether Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo due to gastric trouble The section on Troubling Ailments was also good However when the author got to odd facts about Films he became deeply self referential his son is in a Harry Potter themed band which is nice but nothing I really needed to know And when the author got to Mysterious Places he had the misfortune to pick a place I know fairly well Point Pleasant West Virginia I went to elementary grade and junior high school some thirty miles north of the town he managed to breathlessly report that the Mothman might have been responsible for the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967 or maybe the bridge collapsed because the curse of Chief Cornstalk or maybe Chief Cornstalk is the Mothman The book does have a bibliography of both print and internet sources and the author does include snippets of letters from famous and infamous people but at least in the Kindle edition I read to make sense of the Oddities in Art I had to look up stuff on the Internet because there were no illustrations. A people's history of the peculiart translation It may be too much for me to expect a book of this nature to have footnotes or for me to expect that the author will not bodily throw himself into the narrative every few chapters but on the other hand I have read books on oddities and trivia that are much better than this book I almost gave up on this book and I very nearly wish that I had done so 1936740834 I picked up A People s History of the Peculiar intending to learn some new facts The cover of the book seemed very promising as did the back cover blurb Unfortunately the interesting knowledge kind of ended there. Science Fiction A People's History of the peculiar definition In the introduction the author talks about his personal obsessions and interests and that sets the tone for the book This book didn t feel like a general knowledge book it felt like a loosely cobbled together collection of anecdotes and facts that the author personally found intriguing not necessarily things that the general readership would find interesting. A people's history of the peculiar kindle free When I say loosely cobbled together I mean very loosely cobbled together At times it was difficult to differentiate between fact and myth and the transitions from subject to subject were often jarring There was no standard length of an entry either Some facts would get two or three pages worth of information some facts were barely skimmed over in two or three sentences Even within the same chapter there was no uniformity I was also disappointed in the lack of background information and resource citing The myth of the Mothman was given equal import to actual fact such as the information about British aerospace engineers sending stuffed teddy bears into space Some of the most intriguing items were presented with little fanfare and no reference to where the author acquired the information leading me to wonder at the validity of the statements Most notable one of the items on the front cover of the book is presented completely without firm foundation The Secret Reason Napoleon Lost Waterloo for instance the author states that Napoleon suffered from severe hemorrhoids and that the reason he lost Waterloo was because it was too painful for him to ride a horse that day The author doesn t cite any historic basis for this assumption Was Napoleon actually suffering from hemorrhoids that particular day I recommend looking elsewhere for fun facts The back cover says that this book contains conversation starters I wouldn t start a conversation with these facts if pressed I wouldn t be able to say with certainty that they were true 1936740834 Just to let you know I didn t buy this book I was fortunate enough to win it in a Goodreads giveaway yay. A people's history of the peculiarr religion I m not sure if I would actually buy this book or not but mostly because I am not a huge nonfiction fan Regardless this book was pretty interesting It would be a good road trip book to share with the family. Pdf a people's history of the peculiar pdf I really enjoy just browsing through it every now and then because I happen to learn new cool but sometimes useless facts each time Random patents professions prehistoric creatures you name it that topic just might be in there. A people's history of the peculiarz pdf However of course the book is limited in scope I think it would be really cool if the author published new editions which focused on subjects in detail Therefore readers can select those editions that are of interest to them and can find material on those subjects. Kindle a people's history of the peculiar pdf Anyway the book was pretty good Random as the author guarantees and pretty interesting 1936740834

A People's History of the Peculiar: A Freak Show of Facts, Random Obsessions and Astounding Truths By Nicholas Belardes

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Strange tidbits of true trivia makes Random Obsessions a book you will never stop reading A fun tabletop or nightstand book that will definitely surprise and baffle you 1936740834 it was a good read even though ive heard and know most of the stuff in it there was some interesting parts. A people's history of the peculiar book pdf i read this everywhere on the bus while eating even on the toilet 1936740834 Absolutely terrible 1936740834 What is the point of this book It brings up the occasional interesting story intro only to move on to something else The stories aren t fleshed out I any way It s much like a list of possibly interesting subjects to pursue but with no inherent value in this publication 1936740834 is there even a single interesting facts book that is well written well researched and factual I ve never seen one this didn t look like one and it s not they got me with the people s history title so this writer s idea of an compelling fact is that some people claim to have a fixation with the numbers 9 11 before and after the usa 9 11 attacks occurred or that gwenyth paltrow has once tried cupping not a single bit of history on cupping just a line that says gwen once tried it or that in world of warcraft you can get a shoe item that lets you teleport at one point he just lists 25 cult popular movies with a one sentence description for each like I d quickly write if my friend asked for movie reccs this book is a messss one section about odd jobs simply says TOILET CLEANER Can t imagine this is an especially good job if you work at a constipation clinic Every school needs a janitor Think of the stories you ll hear Huh another says Medicine and art both descended from the same root both originated in magic and that s it nothing else just one poorly worded redundant sentence that hardly makes an ounce of sense that s what you re in for throughout the book the very first section starts with suggesting that it s subject to debate whether or not the murdered women in salem were real witches or not followed by a clearly coerced interrogation confession by a literal enslaved child that our author calls a maidservant sooo not off to a great start it s all like that ignorant history poor understandings and then published it and no one even helped him edit it 1936740834 A writer of the American West Nicholas Belardes s fiction often combines elements of literary fantastic fantasy eco horror and science fiction His debut eco horror novel THE DEADING is forthcoming from Erewhon Books Summer 24 Read an official description of the site_link book. Epub a people's history of the peculiar man His obsession with nature history the world s ongoing climate disasters blended with a daily birdwatching habit has filled his prose with not just warblers and flycatchers but also other obscurities from the natural world His work has appeared in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers Ohio State University Press Carve Magazine and He earned his MFA at UC Riverside Palm Desert Low Residency where he worked with Stephen Graham Jones and Tod Goldberg. Book a people's history of the peculiar world Follow him on site_link T A writer of the American West Nicholas Belardes s fiction often combines elements of literary fantastic fantasy eco horror and science fiction His debut eco horror novel THE DEADING is forthcoming from Erewhon Books Summer 24 Read an official description of the site_link book. A people's history of the peculiar book pdf His obsession with nature history the world s ongoing climate disasters blended with a daily birdwatching habit has filled his prose with not just warblers and flycatchers but also other obscurities from the natural world His work has appeared in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers Ohio State University Press Carve Magazine and He earned his MFA at UC Riverside Palm Desert Low Residency where he worked with Stephen Graham Jones and Tod Goldberg. 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