Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That are Absolutely Positively 100% Not True - Softcover

Roeper, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564144992 ISBN 13: 9781564144997

Publisher: Career Press, 2005

Synopsis

Recounts dozens of stories that have become part of contemporary folklore even though they have no basis in fact, and reveals the truth behind each legend.

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Synopsis:

A collection of humorous and entertaining myths that keep the rumour mills churning. Richard Roeper knows plenty about urban legends. As the celebrated syndicated columnist for the "Chicago Sun-Times", Roeper has devoted at least one column a week to the buzz from Hollywood and the countless urban legends that emanate from Tinsel Town and elsewhere. He describes and demystifies urban legends so deliciously tasty that you desperately want it to be true even though you suspect it's just too good not to be false. Rumours used to move at the speed of sound, but our communications technology has hastened the spread of urban legends to the speed of light. You get them in faxes, in voice mail, in e-mail. You hear them on the radio. You read them in hundreds of gossip columns. Each of these stories and, hundreds more like them, have been told and retold, embellished and reworked. They're fun to hear or read and even more fun to retell. They're part of our contemporary folklore and, although they are fictitious, Roeper shows how they tell us a lot about our culture and ourselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Career Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1564144992
• ISBN 13: 9781564144997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300