The last thing Catherine Price wanted to read about was “a book that pits my desire for adventure against the pressure of mortality.”
Books such as "100 Places to See in Your Lifetime" and "101 Places to Have Sex Before You Die" stressed her out.
The freelance writer’s solution: write an antithesis, a compilation of experiences and situations readers never need relish. The result: "101 Places Not to See Before You Die."
Much-visited entries in her avoid list include Euro Disney, Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Ireland’s Blarney Stone, Stonehenge and the entire state of Nevada, reports the Washington Post.
Many of the entries are weird and funny ("Any Place Whose Primary Claim to Fame Is a Large Fiberglass Thing"), but some aren’t, such as Hell, an AA Meeting When You’re Drunk and the Inside of a Spotted Hyena’s Birth Canal.
Most people would not want to visit these:
“Giant Room Filled with Human Crap (a sludge-recycling plant in Southern California)” and "the Testicle Festival," where revelers chow down on Rocky Mountain Oysters.
By David Wilkening
