Roller Coasters: A Thrill Seeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Coker
Publisher: MNST
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1178961
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1402713339
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.06873
UPC: 049725513334
EAN: 9781402713330
ASIN: 1402713339
Publication Date: April 8, 2002
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Product Description
More than 150 awe-inspiring images of the world’s most terrifying rides put readers in the front seat of the largest, fastest, steepest, loopiest coasters ever built. From fifteenth-century Russian slides to the original Coney Island Cyclone to modern-day steel gigacoasters like Cedar Point’s Millennium Force, this breathtaking, fabulously illustrated guide offers a wild trip through the evolution of roller coasters. Inside, there’s coverage of 200 individual examples, including wooden wonders and steel marvels, inverted coasters, floorless coasters, suspended coasters, and modern hypercoasters. Profiles on coaster engineers and an in-depth look at the ever-evolving technology of coaster design and construction round out this fun survey.
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Scream your lungs out! July 27, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When was the last time you had so much fun screaming? Probably last time you were on a roller coaster, your hair tingling, your eyeballs popping, and your stomach churning. Robert Coker, a talented journalist, has been everywhere you've been and more, and he describes the different rides he's been on, whether wooden or steel, coaster or twister, with a different appropriate writing style that will make you feel you're in the same box, hurtling hundreds of feet downwards after a longslow climb.
Maybe the best part is Coker's sneak preview of coming attractions, rides they're building out there that we may not get to stand on line for just yet. But, a boy can dream, can't he?
A Great Book! February 16, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone who is interested in roller coasters. It includes history of roller coasters, wooden roller coasters, steel roller coasters, and extreme machienes. It also has great pictures. Take my advice, this book is great!
For a wide audience of those young at heart December 6, 2002
Roller Coaster is colorful and informative history of roller coasters by Robert Coker covers early models in an introductory chapter than focuses on the heart of the topic: innovations in roller coaster models and modern coaster innovations. The colorful coverage provides a solid, appealing leisure read which should attract a wide audience of those young at heart.
 yet another romp into the thrill world of coasters September 19, 2002
This book is basically another in a long line of coaster thrill books designed to prolong the excitement of riding these amusement park behemoths. This latest book is tastefully done and includes the requisite history with lots of familiar and some rediscovered photos and prints of old timers. A few of the newer beasts are included with enticing views of riders being turned in spine tingling directions. Coker's text is well written. This book has enough new stuff to warrant it's inclusion in your coaster book library.
Great rollercoaster book September 11, 2002
This book is great.It tells really well about the rollercoaster itself and great pictures.(TWO THUMBS UP)
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