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85th out of 89 books
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Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences...
Brace yourself.
If you’re the squeamish type, turn back now. If you’re afraid of a little blood, read no further. But if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be struck by lightning, swallowed by quicksand, or stung by a jellyfish, then fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride.
Extreme Encounters offers blow-by-blow accounts of life’s most dangerous experiences...more
If you’re the squeamish type, turn back now. If you’re afraid of a little blood, read no further. But if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be struck by lightning, swallowed by quicksand, or stung by a jellyfish, then fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride.
Extreme Encounters offers blow-by-blow accounts of life’s most dangerous experiences...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
September 13th 2002
by Quirk Books
(first published 2002)
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I expected a quick and entertaining read, and it was both, but... the 2nd-person narration falls flat, and I'd have liked actual interviews with survivors, or quoted first-hand accounts. For something that should have been way more interesting, it was actually fairly boring. Still, maybe some of it will end up making its way into some morbidly fun and gruesome poetry. We'll see. I will say, the chapter on kidney stones was accurate ("like someone is using a knife to carve you like a pumpkin from...more
I found this an interesting read. Not for everyone I guess but really was interesting to know how or possibly how things would happen in different situations. If you have a slight morbid interest then you will enjoy this book
If you are curious about what it's like to die in the electric chair, slowly have your brain eaten away by Mad Cow disease or suffer a horrible death from the Ebola virus then this is the book for you! The author puts you in the shoes of someone who is suffering, dying or enduring all this and more. While some of the "extreme encounters" are told in a truly harrowing way, others are a bit bland and silly.
But silliness plays a large part of what this book is about and makes the sometimes dark sub...more
But silliness plays a large part of what this book is about and makes the sometimes dark sub...more
Read this in eighth grade, enjoyed it a lot at the time, but it's not a very deep read and it's written in second person, Choose Your Own Adventure style.
now I know how it feels to drown, so cool
This book takes the reader through a range of "extreme encounters", i.e. near-death experiences. It is told in a very interesting 4th person perspective. Where this book fails to execute is the applicability factor. It just isn't interesting enough, and that is where it falls short.
I really could have done without the second-person "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style narration, or the very pathetic attempts at humor that the authors attempt to inject. Aside from that, they were more or less meticulous in their research.
Not crazy about the 2nd person narration of this book but interesting stuff that I've always wondered about.
Meh. How it feels to read a book that should be fascinating but isn't.
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