Encyclopedia of New Jersey

This book contains 912 pages of information on that state you drove through that one time. Using that much ink on New Jersey is almost as wasteful as giving a billion dollars to the UN.

But I digress.

This book contains 585 illustrations. But of what? Guys named Steve chewing on toothpicks? Landfills? Turnpike roadkill?

Perhaps I'm being a bit hard on the Garden State. (By the way, isn't calling NJ the "Garden State" a little like calling Seattle "Sunshine City"?) It's certainly preferable to, say, Mongolia. Or Quebec.

But I just don't see how this particular piece of real estate is worthy of nearly a thousand pages. Must be a lot of entries on the Mob...

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