Books like Why Fish Fart and Other Useless Or Gross Information About the World

Three years ago, when my dad was visiting from Texas, he bought this book at the local Borders while my brother and I searched the shelves. Then, when we went out to dinner, he cheerfully selected passages to read at random while my brother's face turned green and I laughed because as annoyed as I was at his choice of public dinner conversation, I'm a daddy's girl who inherited his childish sense of humor. I picked it up for the first time since then this summer when, a day after having my wisdom teeth removed and having no laptop to stare dully at, I wanted to read without having to worry about processing complex character and plot twists. I didn't think I'd be able to remember them on the pain killers.But in all honesty, I found a lot of this book fascinating--although some of the sections double-dip on single stories, focusing on slightly different aspects of them (such as the death and burial of Attila the Hun). It could have been trimmed more in the editing process, making it a lot more concise (and removed a few silly grammatical errors), but that's my being nitpicky and accustomed to academic writing. This personal preference didn't at all alter my personal opinion of the work as a whole.