Love acrostics, love trivia.  What's not to love?
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I love acrostics in any form, and wish there were more books available.  My favorites are still the New York Times versions.
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The All Time All Team Pro Football Quiz book is to NFL Trivia Night at my bar like the Official Scrabble Dictionary is to Scrabble.  You don't have an NFL Trivia Night? Suggest one, but not until you read this book.  It's informative, fun and funny.  My favorite parts are the incidentals after the answers. This book goes deep.
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I consider myself to be a bit of a trivia buff, from history to TV to music.  At least I did before I got this book.  Barb Jastrab has assembled a set of "tests" within the book to help you determine whether you are a "player" or a "pretender" in the world of trivia.  Once you begin, you can't stop!  It's funny, it's enlightening, it's humbling, and it's full of "DUH I should have known that" moments.  Challenging and fun, well balanced.
I do have one complaint, Ms. Jastrab.  You are responsible for eight hangovers this past weekend.
Your book and an eggtimer became the fodder for a drinking game of sorts after an otherwise civilized dinner party.  Yes, I know better, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.  Anyway, at my age, I suffer a bit more than I did in my youth after such foolishness.
We have all agreed that next time we do this, we'll play for orange juice. But play again we must!  Thanks for a great book and a fun challenge.
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I'm so happy Michael Ashley is still creating Acrostics.  This collection contains many hours of solving fun for the intermediate solver.  Not as challenging as the Thomas Middleton series, but enough hard answers to make each puzzle interesting.  I'm glad I bought it!
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Amusing and sometimes titillating facts and fiction. The story carries all the intricacy of the shortened alphabet that applies to the names of the leaders of the islands for the first hundred years.  This fact is worth the effort of some effort of learning.  Sailing the Polynesian Islands and learning the lore is the greater reward for quick love of place and time.
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I Love Acrylic!!! This is the heavy thick gauge stuff that I love in my collection. Thoughtfully has clear rubber feet on the bottom to keep it from slipping. Not-a-scratch new.
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I'm a longtime fan of the BRI. They never fail me and this latest volume is no exception.  Cram-packed with fairly useless, but fascinating trivia, it provides hours of entertainment.  My only suggestion would be for them to stop the split entries.  I prefer not to have to skip through the book to finish an article.  Other than that, the books are pure delight.
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Love this Almanac.  Gifted all my children a copy (ages 17,23,25).  Love topics like "Some 2007 Movie Taglines of Note".  It is packed full of trival pop culture that makes for fun conversation at parties. Who knew all the "best airports for sleeping"? Something for everyone!
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not a bad assortment of acrostics. i like the ratings of easy to hard. just wish there were more hard puzzles.
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I use this for a weekly trivia game I post online. The members love the multiple choice options. Only problem I have is the wording it uses..sometimes using words that others don't understand. So, sometimes, I have to use a dictionary and rewrite the questions. But, it's not that often and still WELL WORTH THE PURCHASE!!!!
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What can you say- truffles! What is not to love??
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70 Amazing Facts About Your Brain brings you everything from the mundane to the fascinating in an effort to help you understand just what all your brain can do, and why.

The author peppers the factoids, presented in a numbered list with examples, with humorous comments to keep the material from becoming too dry. In the end, he also includes helpful information on how your brain responds to external stimuli and how you can determine which of these are designed to trick you into behaviors that might not be in your best interest, like buying sale items that aren't as good a bargain as they appear.

It's interesting information presented in a format that is easy to digest. It's like watching the Discovery Channel, but without the interruption of commercials and annoying recaps. There's no redundancy here, and some of the points build on each other so that by the end, you will at the very least have some fun new trivia stored away and at best may even be able to recognize how you are being manipulated by forces at work to trick your brain before you make another rash purchase decision.
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Kids love it because they can dazzle you with little known facts. Adults enjoy the plethorea of info.  Excellent feature is the cross referencing included with many topics.
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This is a review book. Clearly not intended to be your only resource studying for the CORE. I'm not sure why it helps me that the author calls all the silly things we need to know "trivia" or "high yield random facts", but I enjoy the style. There is a high correlation with Rad Primer questions, my other favorite study tool.
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As an incurable trivia nut, this book helped delve into areas that are normally avoided. There is a lot of fascinating information and the author does a great job of looking across more than just Christianity to includee Judiasm and Islam, emphasizing the common roots of all three. Every so often I would come across one part and find myself saying "wow, I never knew that." Soemtimes, well you have to take the author's word on things; I would find his explination reasonable just not what I thought to be true. My vocabulary expanded as I finally learned what a number of things are called. It is a good book to peruse in bursts - reading a bit here, then putting it down to return a day or two later. A welcome counterpoint to the more dense or philosophical writings about religion.
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I am accustomed to the LA Times and NY Times acrostics, and I had hoped this would be up to that standard.  These acrostics are short and generally much simpler than the others I mentioned.  However, if you are just starting to work acrostics, I would highly recommend this to learn to enjoy these entertaining puzzles.
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These acrostics are really, really challenging and are going to give my brain hours and hours of a good mental workout! I am thrilled with this collection.