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Summary: A Book of Trash, DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS PIECE OF CRAP!
Comment: I bought this book and turned to who the top 10 people were and gosh, did I gripe. Come on, William
Shakespeare as the top person of the millennium? Sure he did affect writing and the English language
but how many lives did he affect DIRECTLY? Writers have had little effect on history compared to
politicians, businesspeople and social activists.

The authors exclude Bill Gates, saying he was
only a salesman, when he helped to trigger one of the biggest increases in world growth in history.
Gates helped to spark the IT revolution that boosted the incomes and living standards of millions
across the globe. So did reading Hamlet ever feed or clothe anyone? NOT!

The authors themselves
admit to having a bias for writers in their book. So they do confess that they boo-booed.

Take my
advice and don't buy this complete piece of trash.

Customer Rating:

Summary: A Fun (but Useful) Book
Comment: The authors have sifted thru thousands, using semi-objective criteria, to assign each a rating
ranging from 0 to 24,000 - then printed a small bio sketch for the top 1000. It's a handy
reference for bio information, but we have found it forms a nice basis for a "parlour game". Name
a person, and each assigns his own ranking from 1 - 1000. Then see how the authors ranked him.
They also have several interesting appendices.

Customer Rating:

Summary: The best book written for the millenium!!
Comment: First of all, this was the most fantastic book written about the millenium and the most thorough!
All those ridiculous "millenium" books that you see in the bookstores, written by Tom Brokaw, or
whoever he is, are just about worthless compared to the work that went into this book. Obviously,
it was thoroughly researched, and it is so well written, not dry or boring, but actually humorous
and just delightful. I'd love a chance to sit down with the authors! They must be really great,
interesting people!

Customer Rating:

Summary: Interesting and educational book
Comment: This book is great. It goes through the people of the millennium and ranks them from 1 to 1000. It
makes good debate topics: I argued with my friend once for half an hour about why Beethoven was in
the top ten.

It ranks all the people on their influence to society, their charisma and
singularity of what they did. There are short paragraph biographies of who these people were that
are simple to read and fascinating to learn about. More than half the people I didn't know
already!

Overall, I would say this is an excellent book, aside from the fact that I think it
should be longer. If you don't know what happened in this past millennium, read this book.

Customer Rating:

Summary: A pointless book.
Comment: It is impossible to make an impartial account of the top people of the millenium, as well as
absolutely impossible to make the choices. Many things rankled me. Not just the villification of
Communism, especially Castro, people like to forget that he was a brilliant lawyer who defended
penniless people and risked his life to free his country from the dictatorship of Bastista. Other
reviewers show incredible jingoistic ignorance as to the choices, like one reviewer wondering why
Karl Marx was ahead of Jefferson: its quite obvious why he is ahead of Jefferson, he was far more
intelligent, and far more influential.

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