Showing posts with label hoaxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hoaxes. Show all posts
Monday, July 9, 2012
The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese, 266 pages
This also was reviewed on the Unshelved Friday book club page and piqued my interest. It looks at the history of hoaxes and some of the most famous. I especially liked the inclusion of pictures. I enjoy reading about hoaxes and shenanigans, I was a big fan of the Weekly World News when it was still published. Bat Boy lives on forever!
Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese, 278 pages
This book was reviewed under the Unshelved comic strip Friday book club, and I thought it sounded interesting. It covers internet and media hoaxes and such, and is also a guide on how to be able to tell reality from fantasy in today's hype-driven world. Though I'm thinking the first step would be that if the story comes from the Weekly World News, you might not want to believe it. This was an okay book, it didn't enthrall me, but it did keep me entertained and the chapters were relatively short with lots of bullet points.
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