A review by michael5000
The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists #2 by Amy Wallace, Sylvia Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace

4.0

It's hard to give The Book of Lists a rating. It and its sequels and their People's Almanacs sister books were voraciously read and reread in my childhood home, and were a pretty good supplemental education to an iffy schooling. On the other hand, looked at today it looks a little bit cheap and slapdash. Well, it was a hell of a lot harder to compile general information back in the day. Today, The Book of Lists looks like a B-list website. But, it might be possible that websites would look different today if the Book of Lists had never happened. It's like a little internet between two covers, with similar informative and time-suck capabilities.

The most interesting thing about looking back at it today, now that the internet is in full flower, is that it can be fact-checked. A lot of the stuff that seemed almost too good to be true, back in the day? Turns out it was!