Book Review – The United States of Strange
The United States of Strange: 1,001 Frightening, Bizarre, Outrageous Facts about the Land of the Free and the Home of the Frog People, the Cockroach by Eric Grzymkowski
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This would have been a much better book if it simply just gave us the facts, many of which are quite interesting.
Sadly, the author feels the need to comment on each entry with what he claims is humor. At best, the comments are unfunny, at worst, they are incredibly insensitive, dismissive and demeaning. Given the nature (and style) of the comments, I actually thought that the author had written another book I had read with the same sort of comments. Surprisingly, he had not, which means there are two authors who have the same writing style.
Posted on August 7, 2012, in Books, Media, Opinion, Personal, Reviews and tagged Books, Eric Grzymkowski, media, Opinion, personal, Reviews, United States of Strange. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Looks like I will be avoiding this one. Great post!
The facts are good, but his comments aren’t. At least they are all in italics so that they can be “filtered”