{"id":4383,"date":"2008-04-24T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:39:54","slug":"book-report-the-top-10-of-everything-2008-by-russell-ash-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/book-report-the-top-10-of-everything-2008-by-russell-ash-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Top 10 of Everything 2008 by Russell Ash (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received this book as a Christmas gift.  It provided a couple hours of browsing while watching baseball, as it&#8217;s that sort of book: a number of Top 10 lists about various and sundry subject grouped into categories like <i>music<\/i> and <i>sports and leisure<\/i>.  Definitely a coffeetable\/browsing sort of book, as there&#8217;s not much text besides the lists, the sources, and the occasional tidbit.<\/p>\n<p>The first chapters on science and nature didn&#8217;t really hook me, as I really have little interest in the top animals by size or the most common or uncommon elements.  Once we moved into to the entertainment sections, though, I could get through more of them in a sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not worth the amount it&#8217;s going for on Amazon, but it was a gift.  If you&#8217;re looking for lists, you&#8217;re probably better off with <i>The Book of Lists<\/i> series, which offers more interesting lists with better commentary\/detail on the list items.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0600616789&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this book as a Christmas gift. It provided a couple hours of browsing while watching baseball, as it&#8217;s that sort of book: a number of Top 10 lists about various and sundry subject grouped into categories like music and sports and leisure. Definitely a coffeetable\/browsing sort of book, as there&#8217;s not much text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}