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Complete Idiot's Guide to Urban Legends (Complete Idiot's Guide to S.)

Complete Idiot's Guide to Urban Legends (Complete Idiot's Guide to S.)

by Father Luke Buckles (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $18.13
Synopsis

Some stories are so good, we think they ought to be true, even if they aren't. Urban legends, or myths, passed on at office water coolers, over the Internet and in coffee houses, are stories that sound almost if not completely plausible. If anything, they're entertaining. The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Urban Legends gathers numerous fables and tells you the whole story! Historic and psychological underpinnings are also discussed.

$18.13

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 308
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Imprint Unknown
Published: 11 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0028640071
ISBN 13: 9780028640075
Book Overview: Some stories are so good, we think they ought to be true, even if they aren't. Urban legends, or myths, passed on at office water coolers, over the Internet, in bars and coffeehouses, are stories that sound almost if not completely plausible. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Urban Legends gathers together the most pervasive, unusual, fascinating, and grotesque of these cautionary, often violent folktales that are the 21st-century equivalent of myths, fairy tales, and fables. The book explains their historic and psychological underpinnings and showing how, thanks to the Internet, they can travel at the speed of light and mutate just as quickly.

Author Bio
Brandon Toropov, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Getting Along with Difficult People and co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to the World's Religions, is a Boston-area writer who has appeared on more than 100 local and national broadcast programs.