- Paperback: 175 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books; First THUS edition (Mar 15 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811846067
- ISBN-13: 978-0811846066
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #925,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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People who love reading about the stupid and the terrible will find The World's Worst hilarious and highly addictive. A celebration and indictment of nearly 50 infamous and little-known exemplars of the awful, this collection contains scathingly funny essays on the most disgusting fruit, the deadliest toy, the most unappealing fetish and much more.
About the Author
A former editor at Wired, Los Angeles-based Mark Frauenfelder wrote a Playboy column called "Living Online." He is the author of The Mad Professor.
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A Short Book on a Long Subject, July 10 2005
By William Holmes "semloh2287" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places and Things on Earth (Paperback)
"The World's Worst" is really entertaining as far as it goes, but a cursory review of this morning's newspaper suggests that it should have been a much longer book. Still, each of the book's fifty short chapters is quite witty and enoyable to read. Among the entries: kopi luwak, the world's most disgusting beverage, which involves processing coffee beans through the digestive tract of a civet cat (can't wait to order that at Starbucks); the most disgusting fruit (the durian, "like eating ice cream in a sewer"); the most gruesome bug bite (revenge of the brown recluse spider); the worst-smelling flower ("corpse flower" says it all); the world's worst molasses-related disaster (it killed 21 people in Boston in January 1919, so apparently "molasses in January" isn't so slow after all); the most disgusting behavior on an airplane (I think I'd rather take my chances with the civet cat); and the lamest former dictator (now living on his Mom's couch)."The World's Worst" is light, fluffy, entertaining and a quick read. And it's very sequel-friendly--the next volume(s) will no doubt be just as amusing.
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A lot of filler, July 5 2005
By J. LeBrecht - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places and Things on Earth (Paperback)
Indeed, this book made me laugh and grossed me out. All good, in my opinion.My beef is that although the book is 176 pages long, it really has about half of that in content. Each "chapter/entry" starts off with a whole page dedicated to a sentance stating what the subject is, "Most Disgusting Drink", for example. Then the entry usually starts off in the middle of the next page. The lay out of this book makes it seem like it's a lot longer than it really is. Take a look at the example. I would have hoped for a longer tome.
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It Can Always Get Worse, Jan 14 2007
By J. Brian Watkins - Published on Amazon.com
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Mr. Frauenfelder has scoured the globe for interesting bits of trivia related solely by their ability to horrify. Whether natural perils or stomach turning drunken antics, the book holds one's attention. Perhaps in reading of such events and things we can take solace in our normal and safe lives. Seriously, who first decided to make a drink out of berries scavenged from the dung of a wild cat? Who first opened a fruit that smells like rotting flesh and decided to taste it?My only complaint was that the format was extremely limited. Perhaps in keeping with the jocular tone of the work the author didn't want to get into too much detail, but detail is precisely what makes many of these things fascinating.
If you have a friend or acquaintance who is discouraged, this would be an excellent gift. Perhaps we have an innate need to constantly reestablish that things can always be worse.
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