Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

Paperback, 400 pages

Published by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-4391-9956-5
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2 stars (1 review)

"A comprehensive, informative, and utterly debilitating compendium of surprising ways you might die a horrible death at any moment--all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life--from master humorists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf"--Publisher description.

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If you read this book as a kind of self parody of our CNN run culture of fear porn, you'll get some enjoyment from it. If you try to take it seriously as an actual information source, forget it. Unfortunately, this book is not nearly as funny as [b:Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead|6697553|Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead|Robert Brockway|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320454952s/6697553.jpg|6893238]. But it isn't nearly as offensive and childish.