Uncle John is the author of one of my favorite series’ of books.  The Bathroom Reader Series are about as unconventional as you can get from a book perspective.  It is a collection of odd facts and trivia set out in a series of articles rarely longer than six pages in length.  Want to know the circumstances surrounding Elvis’ death?  Facts about armadillos, Corning-Ware, sleeplessness, plagues, Kings, Queens, and everything in between line the pages of these books.  This series of books would be mandatory reading should you aspire to try to get on Jeopardy!.  Most of the answers to the questions on that show can be found in the pages of these books.  The average book generally exceeds 500 pages, and can be read year in and year out.

Some of the books are theme based as well.  There are specific books on Hockey, Music, Gardening, and History.  As I am a big fan of history, that book was one of my personal favorites.  I would love to see them write a book on technology.  Provide me with all sorts of useless information on the history (and the how stuff works) of computers, televisions, radio, even cars and the space shuttle.

I own about twenty of these books.  Some articles are repeated within the different books, but that’s ok.  The fact is you never remember the entire book, so it is all good.  They seem to come out with one or two a year, and I buy them when they come out.  I have found that Wal-Mart is the cheapest place to buy these books.