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That's Bollocks! [Hardcover]

Albert Jack (Author)

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; First Edition edition (28 Sep 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140515747
ISBN-13: 978-0140515749
Product Dimensions: 19 x 12 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. More than just a collection of urban legends, this is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of history and the assumptions of old wives' tales and self-help books amongst many, many other things, Albert Jack shows us that the truth can definitely be stranger than fiction.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Superficial, 3 July 2008

M. Mason (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That's Bollocks!: Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories and Old Wives' Tales (Paperback)

It must be easy to write a book like this. Simply gather a bunch of - for the most part - well known Urban Legends, and retell them in a superficial way.

The trouble with this book is that very few of the legends are actually debunked. We are led to believe that some of the stories may actually be true. But which ones? If you want to know, you won't find out here.

Jack has obviously done no real research. You could write a book like this by using an internet search for Urban Legends. Where he has debunked them, it has been in the most cursory fashion.

Incidentally, the Hook Legend. The most obvious debunk to me is to ask the obvious question: what mental asylum would allow a one handed psychopath to keep his hook? I suppose the Mad Axe Man gets to keep his axe, does he?

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1.0 out of 5 stars My Aunts Doctor Told Me That..., 8 Dec 2006

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This review is from: That's Bollocks! (Hardcover)

There's an urban legend doing the rounds that an author may have done his 'research' simply by visiting one noted urban legend debunking website. And then written his booked based on the content from said website.

Sound implausible?

We'll all the eveidence points to just that very thing happening with 'That's Bollocks!'. Indeed, the incorporation of 'urban legends' deliberately planted on said noted website in order to prove that you should not always believe a source just because it has been reliable in the past or has an air of truth about. However, the author does not seem to have realised that these so-called urban legends were effectively truth tests created by the site authors in order to prove a point.

If it is the case that the 'research' for this book simply consisted of re-hashing the genuine work of others, then it represents very poor standards at best, outright plagiarism at worst.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Title misleading, 6 Feb 2012

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This review is from: That's Bollocks!: Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories and Old Wives' Tales (Paperback)

This book is only about stories of legends (that are not even recognizable) and does not contain any old wives tales. It is not the what I was looking for.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Celebs and foafs
Albert Jack is to be commended on both introducing to the casual reader of books on urban myths and the snooty academic folklore establishment so many fresh contemporary legends... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Leander

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Very Original
Quite an amusing collection of urban myths, but it's not particularly original containing much that has already been collected elsewhere. Read more

Published on 19 July 2009 by H. meiehofer

1.0 out of 5 stars Superficial
It must be easy to write a book like this. Simply gather a bunch of - for the most part - well known Urban Legends, and retell them in a superficial way. Read more

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