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2/5 Barnes & Noble Original title That Book Publication date 1 December 2004 (USA) OCLC 54953153 | 3.8/5 Goodreads 3.9/5 AbeBooks Language English Originally published July 2004 Genre Non-fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country United States - original version British Subject Information, Trivia, Humour Publisher HarperCollins (USA) & Transworld Publishers (UK) Similar Mitchell Symons books, Non-fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information, commonly abbreviated as "That Book" (the title it was published under in Britain) is a book written by writer Mitchell Symons, and published in 2004.
Contents
Material
The book covers all sorts of material, but frequent topics are celebrities and other people, and their personal qualities, animals, calendar dates, years, toilets, songs, bands, and information normally in the form of lists.
Collection
In the acknowledgements for the book, Symons says: "For the past twenty years, I've been collecting weird and wonderful facts, which I've been storing on bits of paper and, more recently, on my computer. Every few years I'll use some of it in a book or a newspaper series, but it's always been my ambition to be able to put together the most fascinating, extraordinary facts I had-or could find-in one volume."