Review of "The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept and Dangerous People, Places and Things On Earth," by Mark Frauenfelder

 Review of

The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept and Dangerous People, Places and Things On Earth, by Mark Frauenfelder, ISBN 0811846067

Five out of five stars

The wild and bizarre in many categories

 This book is an entertaining and at times disturbing read. For many, the most frightening is the potential of being bitten by a brown recluse spider. While this particular spider is timid, if disturbed, it will bite, and the consequences can be severe. In the most extreme cases, severe tissue necrosis can result. Furthermore, the symptoms can continue to recur much later, after it appears the worst is over.

 The categories cover everything from the most inept dictator of all time to the most noxious weed in the world, the worst car ever made to the worst self-inflicted health measure. The last one is literally where a person drills a hole in their head as a medical treatment.

 In reading this book the reader will experience a wide variety of emotions, from being amused to disgusted to disbelief. However, as the baseball great Casey Stengel is quoted as saying, “You can look it up.”