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Notable: Time wasters
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published October 7, 2007
Are you kidding? It's addictive little volumes like these that make trivia contest winners and barroom boon companions. Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions (Perigee) by Joshua Piven (the Worst-Case Scenario guy) settles arguments like "Which would be worse to find in your slipper, a black widow or a giant centipede?" Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games and Other Stuff From the '80s That Rocked (Abrams Image) by Matthew Robinson and Jensen Karp will have '80s kids wallowing in everything from Garbage Pail Kids to Masters of the Universe. Hatch's Order of Magnitude (Writer's Digest Books) by Michael Hatch ranks both the silly (degrees of funny brothers, from Wachowski to Marx) and the scientific (levels of brightness, from one photon to the Big Bang).
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