Review of "Interesting Stories for Curious People: A Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture and Just About Anything Else You Can Think Of," by Bill O’Neill
Review of
Interesting Stories for Curious People: A
Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture and Just
About Anything Else You Can Think Of, by Bill O’Neill, ISBN
9781648450440
Five out of five stars
The short stories are indeed interesting
Covering topics
from space aliens to actual cases of public human cannibalism, the stories in
this book justify the word “interesting” in the title. Some are based on facts,
such as the one about the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean. One of
the most unusual facts is that most of the actors that played the bumbling German
soldiers in the television show “Hogan’s Heroes” were in fact Jewish. Werner Klemperer,
who played the bumbling Colonel Klink and was Jewish said that having the
soldiers portrayed as nincompoops was the only way he would act out the role.
There are many
candidates for the weirdest story. My best candidate is about Belgian serial
killer Mark Dutroux. With the aid of his wife Michelle Martin, he would abduct,
rape and torture to death pre-teen girls. What makes the story a candidate for
the weirdest is that Dutroux appeared to have deep connections into the highest
levels of Belgian society. There were twenty unexplained deaths of witnesses
involved in the Dutroux cases and some women that managed to escape claimed
that he was just a grunt that procured girls for very highly placed people in Belgian
society.
All the stories
are very short, three pages at most. The point and the main justifications are
all well-made there is never any doubt as to what the main point of the story
was. This book is another proof of the adage that truth is stranger than fiction.
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