Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Unlock The Weird! (ANNUAL)

I was so excited to received this new edition! The cover is awesome! It's full of lots of fun, weird and interesting stuff. I loved it all especially using the table of contents and index which really helped to find certain features! It's 253 pages of wow!

This is an AWESOME book... especially since I am featured in it. Hehehe!!! Please go to page 23 where it says "HORNET NESTS". That's me! :-) How cool is that!!! Anyway, I just want to say that I feel very honored and privileged to be part of such a well known American franchise. Thank you very much for this wonderful book!

Not only that,the words to 'Danny Boy' were written by an Englishman,'Maggie' was written by a Canadian and 'I'll Take you Home Again Kathleen' was written in America, and was a promise to bring the writer's lover back from out west to New York;not from America back to Ireland.There is no end of the things that are not as they first might seem.One of my favorites is that 'The Birdman of Alcatraz,Robert Stroud,who did all that research on birds, while serving a life sentence for murder,did it in Leavenworth prison,not Alcatraz.

If you enjoy reading this sort of of thing;Ripley was the undisputed master of turning up this stuff,from all over the world.Although there have been many imitators,and some pretty good ones at that,he was the inventor and the best at the game.

I have been a big fan and reader of Ripley since I was about 10 years old,and I am now approaching 70.As a young lad I got his first Believe It or Not! and noticed it was recently reprinted as a reproduction and selling in a 'big box bookstore'.It is exactly like the one I had so many years ago.

Over the years ,I have read and collected many of these books over the years.My favorites were the paperback series that started in1950,and about 30 same out,Also many large 'Special' books like this one.Also a series of Comic books.Just when it looked like the end to his long trail,the TV series started.It,s been a long run and I've never tired of it because there's always new material. One of my favorite books about Ripley was 'Ripley -The Modern Marco Polo' by Bob Considine.In this book ,Considine,a pal of Ripley's, tells so much about Ripley that one realizes that his life was as wild and just as unbelievable as the stuff he wrote about.After all these years,his cartoon is still carried daily in nany newspapers.Unfortunately not here in Toronto,and maybe not where you live;but fear not,it's on the Net under 'Believe It or Not'.There are several BION Museums around the country with wonderful exhibits.I visited the one in Niagara Falls a couple of years ago.Enjoyed it very much,but surprised that they had no books to sell;hopefully that oversight has been corrected by now.

I must say the printing,paper,almost exclusive use of color photography,and overall construction of this book is excellent.I would like to offer just one bit of criticism,that being of some printing on top of pictures.This accomplishes very little other than making for difficult legibility.(examples are pages 59,78,134 144,153 & 179)

A great book for people off all ages.

I got this through the mail expecting to only look at the pictures, because reading anything other than historical romance isn't my thing (haha). But I spent two days reading this. It was so entertaining. I've seen the show LOTS of times, but reading all of these facts was a lot more fun. I've noticed the repeated fact that another reviewer wrote about. I also ordered the Guiness Book of World Records after Ripley's because now I've a new love...useless facts. I recommend this book to everyone, it's just pure fun all the way around.

This is classic "Ripley's," fun, engaging, colorful and plain interesting! This book has been GLUED to my 6 year old's hands since we got it. It's an awesome coffee table book. Every time she walks by it, she opens to a random page and starts reading- it's even inspired some library trips to learn more about this crazy world of ours. A+, Ripley's!!

I got this through the mail expecting to only look at the pictures, because reading anything other than historical romance isn't my thing (haha). But I spent two days reading this. It was so entertaining. I've seen the show LOTS of times, but reading all of these facts was a lot more fun. I've noticed the repeated fact that another reviewer wrote about. I also ordered the Guiness Book of World Records after Ripley's because now I've a new love...useless facts. I recommend this book to everyone, it's just pure fun all the way around.

This is classic "Ripley's," fun, engaging, colorful and plain interesting! This book has been GLUED to my 6 year old's hands since we got it. It's an awesome coffee table book. Every time she walks by it, she opens to a random page and starts reading- it's even inspired some library trips to learn more about this crazy world of ours. A+, Ripley's!!

Packed with some great stories. Be better if they were true. He explains little. Ben Franklin invented the harmonica. He doesn't explain it is not the mouth organ but an instriment that didn't catch on. The largest prime number is... He gets it wrong in the title but gets it right in the body of the story. The Tower of Brahma. A legend used to sell a toy (Tower of Hanoi) that Ripley beleived as a fact. Cute. Never corrected in the reprintings and never re-released in paperback because of the massive numbers of corrections needed.