Biggest Secrets: More Uncensored Truth about All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know

By William Poundstone

Book Overview

From the author of the mega-selling Big Secrets comes the equally entertaining sequel which unveils the truth about all sorts of things you are never supposed to know. The recipe for Mrs. Fields Cookies... What backward messages on records are really trying to tell you... Frank Sinatra's real age... Why you can't counterfeit a lottery ticket... Barbra Streisand's blue movie... The other Boy Scout rituals... Ingmar Bergman's soap commercials... The formula for Play-Doh... and more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688115292
• ISBN13: 9780688115296
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Holy cripes! I have to rethink my entire world-view!

Books such as this and the previous in the "Secrets" series make me realize just how much of the world out there is not known to me, to you, to anyone but the Illuminati, the Masons, and other if-you-need-to-know-we'll-tell-you organizations. There IS a conspiracy out there, people, and books like William Poundstone's "Biggest Secrets" blow chunks all over the conspiracy. The world is ours to know! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to tune my shortwave radio into those CIA numbers broadcasts... something ELSE I learned from my new personal hero, William Poundstone!

IT WAS GREAT!

iam a magician and if theres magicians who wants to know how the big stuff is done in the illusions sections then this is it the creame of the cream of top notch magic and illusions from all three books it is a knock out!especally in bigger secrets. it tells the secret to the STATUE OF LIBERTY MY THORIES TO IT WAS CLOSE BUT I WAS WORKING TO HARD I WAS USING THE BLACK ART IDEA WITH A SCREME NETTING IT WOULD WORK BUT COPPERFIELDS METHOD IS MUTCH MUTCH BETTER.ENJOY. YOUUR FRIEND IN CHRIST AND MAGICALLY YOURS BILLPAGE THE MAGICIAN.

Essentially useless, but excrutiatingly enjoyable anyway

This series of books (Big, Bigger, and Biggest Secrets) is a celebration of all things wonderfully useless. Do you need to know where Walt Disney is buried? No, but it's kinda cool to know that the author tracked Walt's grave down. Do you need to know where the secret drinking club is in Disneyland? No again, but it'll change the way you think about the Happiest Place on Earth. I was in utter delight when Bigger Secrets came out, and I was overjoyed to find Biggest Secrets. Alas, however, a fourth edition has yet to be printed -- what nefarious secret could have caused this? Mr. Poundstone, please strike again! There's so much useless stuff I don't know about yet..

A fun, informative book.

Where else can you find the real Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and the formula for Play-Doh in the same book? Poundstone's writing style is entertaining; he reveals the great secrets of popular culture without even a hint of malice. (And the recipe makes a darned fine cookie, too!) His similar, earlier books, "Big Secrets" and "Bigger Secrets," are also excellent. I only hope he finds another superlative so "Biggest Secrets" won't be the last volume in this series!