5 People Who Died During Sex
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5 People Who Died During Sex by Karl Shaw
All in perfectly bad tastePrepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.
Did you know...
...that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression "drunk as a pope"? (From "10 Historic Drunks")
...that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the works of Carl Jung and Laurens van der Post? (From "History's 10 Least Romantic Honeymoons")
...that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic? (From "History's 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes")
...that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia--fear of eggs? (From "10 Phobias of the Famous")
...that King Louis XIV only took three baths in his lifetime, each of them under protest?
(From "10 Great Unwashed")
...that in 1930, Sears customers became enraged when the catalog was first printed on glossy, non-absorbent paper?
(From "12 Magical Moments in Toilet Paper History")
Karl Shaw is the author of many comedic books, including Gross, Royal Babylon: An Irreverent History of European Monarchy and the American bestseller Five Persons Who Died During Sex and 100 More Terribly Tasteless Lists. He worked as a journalist for NME and other publications. He lives in Staffordshire with his family and works in marketing for the country's largest manufacturer of stool jars.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780767920599 |
| ISBN 10 | 0767920597 |
| Title | 5 People Who Died During Sex |
| Author | Karl Shaw |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) |
| Year published | 2007-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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