Armchair Reader The Gigantic Reader Author:Editors of West Side Publishing What do you get when you fill more than 500 pages with some of the most curious, interesting, and oddball facts and explanations available to intelligent man? You get Armchair Reader: The Gigantic Reader. It’s a classic installment in the popular Armchair Reader series. — Some of it is downright absurd, like “the art... more » of gurning,” a British contest in which you try to make the ugliest face possible. Some of it makes you realize what a big world we live in, like the fact that the popular children’s TV show Sesame Street is now in 120 countries (and in several cases is very different from the original U.S. version). And some of it is startling, such as the descriptions of “The Women of the SS,” the females who saw fit to lend their aid to Hitler’s killing force.
Read a few pages of Armchair Reader: The Gigantic Reader and you will come away smarter and more amazed at the world around us. The book digs into hundreds of fascinating topics, such as:
Trepanation, the 7,000-year-old “art” of drilling holes in the skull for medical reasons
The strangest baseball injuries, including 1950s and 1960s era pitcher Roger Craig lacerating his finger on a woman’s bra strap
An interview with a pet psychic
The largest living organism—not a whale but a mushroom
An enormous list of “flubbed” headlines, such as “Meridian Woman Training for 20004 Games”
Equal parts wisdom and humor, Armchair Reader: The Gigantic Reader contains countless stories about the kooky, the fascinating, and the amazing. Perfect as a gift for a loved one—or for yourself—and a great way to pass a few minutes or a long weekend on the couch, Armchair Reader: The Gigantic Reader won’t fail to make you think.« less