That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

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Title That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
Author Mitchell Symons
Country United States - original version British
Language English
Subject(s) Information, Trivia, Humour
Genre(s) non-fiction
Publisher HarperCollins (USA) & Transworld Publishers (UK)
Released 1 December 2004 (USA)
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 371 p. (US hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-06-073149-4 (US hardback edition)
Followed by This Book ...of More Perfectly Useless Information

That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information,commonly abbreviated as "That Book", (the title it was published under in Britain) is a book written by writer and journalist Mitchell Symons, and published in 2003.

[edit] Book Trivia

[edit] Material

The book covers all sorts of material, but frequent topics are celebrities and other people, and their personal qualities, animals, dates, years, toilets, songs, bands, and information normally in the form of lists.

[edit] Collection

In the acknowledgements for the book, Symons says: "For the past twenty years, I've been collecting weird and wonderful facts, which I've been storing on bits of paper and, more recently, on my computer. Every few years I'll use some of it in a book or a newspaper series, but it's always been my ambition to be able to put together the most fascinating, extraordinary facts I had-or could find-in one volume.". Interestingly, Symons has previously published somewhat similar books.