Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $19.95
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Description
"Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!"—Booklist
What’s weird around here?
That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-13
Summary: "Weired IS the word for this book!"
I live in Kentucky and was born and raised here. But there are some stories in this book that I have never heard of, and I thought that I had maybe, heard them all! This book is not just for Kentuckians, it is for anyone who likes to read or watch things out of the ordinary, and who knows, maybe even experience something out of the ordinary? If you like things like this, then you need to purchase this book! Right Now! You won't regret it!
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-19
Summary: "Weird KY"
I am finding many new places to visit! The book is more "intellectual" than I expected from the title, but it is also more educational than I expected. While the book would be useful for anyone planning to visit the state, it may be more useful to people who want to know their own state better. Maybe best of all is that many of the stories are inspirational as well as entertaining and educational.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-06
Summary: "Terrific Book!"
This book was so fun to read. I was going to just flip through it when it came but I ended up reading the entire book in one afternoon. The authors write with a sly sense of humor but never condescension-even when it comes to the wackiest stuff. They want you to experience the weird and nutty things in your own state that you probably don't even know about. (Most of the stuff in the book I DIDN'T know about) And enjoy doing it! I hope they do a book for each state.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-05
Summary: "LOVE IT !!"
When a friend of mine showed me this book, I loved it so much I decided to buy it for my stepson that same day! Its full of really interesting facts I didn't know about KY! I've added a few of them to my list of places to see. Only downside?:( for me personally) Theres a Few too many Ghost stories for my taste. I was more interested in the other wierd history and wierd places in KY. But I'm sure my stepson will love it !
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-06-16
Summary: "A STELLAR WORK"
In Weird Kentucky, Jeffrey Scott Holland weaves native knowledge with meticulous research--including numerous first-hand accounts of the phenomenal--to compose a tome without parallel. Holland is a deft writer, moving from the tongue-in-cheek and humorous to the poignant and profound with incredible grace.
Even those of us who have been in the fair Commonwealth of Kentucky for some time can find their bearings with this book to new roads less travelled, the haunts of spectres, the unusual and unsolved, ancestral grounds, ancient archeology, and the paths of the famous and infamous.
I recommend it highly to curiosity seekers, scholars of the mysterious, adventurers of every stripe, and anyone looking for a great ride of a read.