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The World's Most Fantastic Freaks (World's Greatest) by: Mike Parker City Travel Guides Price: £0.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780600586111 ISBN: 0600586111 Label: Bounty Books Manufacturer: Bounty Books Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: January 12, 1995 Publisher: Bounty Books Studio: Bounty Books Sales Rank: 38267 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - INTERESTING READ....I enjoyed reading this book. The stories were short, and meant that you could read as much or little as you wanted at any time. There was just enough information to satisfy my curiosity, but not too much to bore me. I found this to be an enjoyable read. Rating:  - A mixed bagThe most disappointing aspect of this paperback is the awful reproduction of the photographs. It is not always easy to see what the murky, coarse-grained photos are portrayig, despite the captions. The poor quality of the newsprint, yellowing already, doesn't help matters either. Many of the most interesting anomalies described are not illustrated. An index would have been helpful, but none is provided. His choice of some 'freaks', such as victims of spontaneous human combustion, progeria children, gluttons and the 'man in the iron mask,' is questionable. A reconstruction of the 'Elephant Man's'face is used instead of any one of numerous photographs taken during Merrick's lifetime. Some notable victims of genetic anomalies ... Read More: |
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