The Ultimate Bathroom Reader: Interesting Stories, Fun Facts and Just Crazy Weird Stuff to Keep You Entertained on the Throne! (Perfect Gag Gift)

Popular author Bill O’Neill has authored many books on Trivia and has become an expert in this field! His topics include movies, football, baseball, wars, rock music, simply random trivia facts, the US States, and just interesting facts. Now with a nod to providing interesting reading material while sitting on the toilet (private rest time!), Bill offers a plethora of wacky and odd facts and thoughts stories that provide not only entertainment but also conversation material when chatting with friends!Providing an overview of the topics of interest in this book, Bill outlines his content in the Introduction – ‘Who doesn’t love a bit of trivia now and then? Or, for that matter, who doesn’t enjoy plucking some obscure tidbit of information form the back of their mind and dropping it into conversation? In simple terms, that is what this book is all about… Here you’ll find out about the very first word sent over the internet – and what happened to it when the computer it was being sent, crashed….hundreds more facts are listed here, in bite-size chunks – with a few pop quizzes thrown in to keep your brain ticking over!’Bill’s contributions to our hungry minds are enormously entertaining and cover a wide spectrum of topics – famous firsts (i.e. ‘Although George Washington oversaw its construction, he never lived in the White House’), a timeline of strange weather events, body language, stories of Hollywood casting changes, timeline of food-based riots, the 10 most watched TV moments in US history, stories of accidental inventions, the invention of Coca-Cola, some famous disappearances, former names of famous brands, timeline of mad kings and queens, stories behind famous haunted houses, and many other topics (and quizzes – with answers!) covering pets, misspelled words, music, strange word histories and origins, sports, space, history, science – just about everything imaginable!Not only is the book entertaining – it is also very instructive. For those familiar with Bill O’Neill’s talent for tickling the brain, this book is a must read – one of his best. For those who are simply looking for solid entertaining reading to while pausing for nature’s calling in the bathroom, welcome to the field expert! Highly recommended. Grady Harp, July 21

I like trivia and these books by Bill O'Neill fit the bill. Now I know that you are going to say read one trivia book and you have read them all. Well that might be true, but it doesn't hurt to read more trivia books because there is always a new hidden gem to discover. So I say give me trivia.

Interesting & weird facts but cool to know them

Received fast, good quality, 10/10

Gave it 4 star because it came when promised and quality looks good. But it was a gift so we did not read it to know if it was worth the purchase or not.

Short stories to read while sitting on the throne.

Boys love this

The product did arrive okay, and it’s not lost. Thank You!

Nothing more than a tatty gathering of trivia - in itself that wouldn't be a problem but the writing style is devoid of any life. Scatterings of quizzes pad the book out. If you want a book to encourage you to nap on the thunderbox, then this will do the job. Production-wise, as a printing produced by Amazon, it's OK but the sheer look of it with a large font size and without any form of illustration is another put-off. At least my local hospice charity shop will benefit now that I've donated it. If they're lucky, someone may be fooled into forking out 50p. It isn't worth any more than that.

The facts are very interesting and the amount of detail really fills in the gaps but honestly, I can really do without the quizzes. Apart from anything else, when voiceover is reading them there’s no time to even think about the answers and since the answers are after all the uestions you’d need to write them down in order to see how many are right and which ones, not easy when you’re on the throne I should think.

I had hoped for more worldwide facts but this seems to be very oriented to the United States and is rather annoying.

Christmas gift for male friend. Very good

Another excellent and fun book from the pen off