The way McDowall can go from calm and quiet to suddenly screaming in a fit of rage

I could easily imagine Bookworm reading War and Peace in his cell in Arkham, truly underrated Batman villain played by an amazing actor.

@wwb16

3 жыл бұрын

except arkham didn't exist in the comics back then

@scottgarrison1457

2 жыл бұрын

War and Peace? ...👌 an ez 2 minute read for the bookworm!

@harvey2906

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 💯. He was a great villain.✌️

@louislo9607

Жыл бұрын

​@@wwb16 it did. Arkham asylum was shown in an old episode. A really psycho episode. Someone opened all the doors and all of of a sudden you hear Penguin laughing.

@JohnSmith-pl4sf

Жыл бұрын

Also the same actor who acted as Cornelius in planet of the apes

Roddy McDowall got to do this role and Mad Hatter in Batman: The Animated Series. Talk about a solid supervillain career.

@JYDY-if5rf

3 жыл бұрын

Roddy McDowall got to do his role as snowball the hamster in Pinky and the brain

@DavidLopez-yt2yp

2 жыл бұрын

He also narrated the audiobook for batman 1989

@zeoinfinitneospace2134

Жыл бұрын

Roddy McDowell was the Perfect cast for The Mad Hatter 🎩 and I'm kind of sad that he passed away in 1998 the last time that he voiced the Mad Hatter is kight time in Superman the animated series

@writerartist6306

Ай бұрын

​@@DavidLopez-yt2ypYeah, it just sucks how abridged the audiobook for 1989 Batman is in comparison to the novel but I'm sure they did it for cost and production concerns.

The costumer for Batman was a genius. From the Bookworm's suit to King Tut's pharaoh costume he made the costumes not only original to the actors but comfortable enough for them to act without being restrained by what their wearing.

@scottgarrison1457

2 жыл бұрын

U could hear 👂 the bookworms fake leather jacket 😆 as he moved his arms

@robinrobyn1714

Жыл бұрын

The Riddler's ( Frank Gorshin) sidekick, Molly, wore a shiny glossy black vinyl jacket. It would creak when she moved.

@nicholasfarrell5981

10 ай бұрын

Apparently King Tut was the least favorite to make costumes for, since Buono was an absolutely massive man.

@bufnyfan1

9 ай бұрын

The only thing Roddy McDowall didn't like about being on Batman was the costume he had to wear as he said it was incredibly hot to wear under the stage lights.

@woodrobin

2 ай бұрын

@@scottgarrison1457 That's the genius of the costume: the Bookworm is leather-bound, like all his favorite books.

Roddy McDowall was a superb actor. Maddeningly unappreciated by so many.

@Louis-jm3zy

Жыл бұрын

He also played Chung in the short lived Remo Williams TV series.

@grantorino2325

7 ай бұрын

And after Charlton Heston refused to return after the first film, he practically carried the entire *Planet of the Apes* franchise.

Bookworm would work *very* well as a modern Batman villain if done right.

@dknighton100

4 ай бұрын

I have the belief that any comic character, whether they be silly, dumb, or stupid, has the ability to become a great character if they are given the right writer and characterization.

I impressed he could turn those pages one at a time while wearing gloves.

Roddy McDowall looked like he was having the time of his life--he's so much fun to watch in this. :D

@dnasty312

3 жыл бұрын

And the future Mad Hatter 🎩 ¹⁰/6

@Lewis9709

3 жыл бұрын

Roddy said he really enjoyed being on the show.

@bufnyfan1

3 жыл бұрын

Roddy McDowall loved playing the Bookworm (although he said the costume was very hot)-the story goes that he wrote producer William Dozier to thank him for his time on the set and that he would love to do further episodes of Batman--sadly this was the only episode he got to do-likely because ABC and Greenwood Productions cut the budget for the show to a "shoestring" by the end of the second season

@bryanhead2670

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he was having the time of his life in the colombo movie he did too!

@matthewmcvey3494

3 жыл бұрын

I have the time of my life when Roddy McDowell is on

Roddy McDowall is one of my all-time favourites. He was totally believable in any role he played. He will always be my Cornelius.

@ratedr8490

9 ай бұрын

Funny, I always think of him as my vampire hunter Peter Vincent;)😊

@jesusaraiza9787

8 ай бұрын

for me he will always be the great Vampire Killer, PETER VINCENT!!

@rayng646

2 ай бұрын

I prefer Galen

I don't know how true it is, but most of the actors who played villains did have the time of their lives.

My school teacher Grandmother taught me to read and write at age 5. From that moment I always had a book in my hand. The kids in school nicknamed me 'Bookworm". I used to hate it until I 1st saw Roddy Mac in this role. I've worn the name with pride since then. R.I.P RODDY MAC.

@kjthekunoichi

2 жыл бұрын

Heehee I think it's the same for me too👍👍

@savannablankenship2427

2 жыл бұрын

You’re not alone in this world. I too love to read. I’m a fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. I’m also interested in Sir Arthur’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

@williamhaynes4800

2 жыл бұрын

@@savannablankenship2427 JRR Tolkien is my favorite author. I think I have every book he has written; including The Silmarillion which I am now re-reading for the 3rd time. I am hoping Peter Jackson will complete his plan to film it into another trilogy.

Bookworm along with his fantastic mind reading an entire book called “The Secret of Success: Self-Control” in the matter of seconds by smoothing out the pages

@thefonzkiss

3 жыл бұрын

He’s not smoothing the pages man he’s speedreading. Just using his hand to show how fast he’s reading, since it’s a tv show.

@denisgauthier9191

3 жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss I knew that

@elaw2414

3 жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss Ayyyyyyyyyy!

@Suchapill

3 жыл бұрын

"The Fonz" does reverse mortgage commercials on KZread now. Times have changed changed. Ayyyyy 👍

@mountlite

2 жыл бұрын

But he was reading some sort of listing of entries, not a book 🤣

Imagine bookworm and the riddler teaming up

@robertdemcher8403

9 ай бұрын

That would be awesome

@georgiablackman9661

4 ай бұрын

Would be badass

I'll say this. In a modern Batman project, The Bookworm could work really well as a modern villain. I mean, he already has the obsessive psychosis thing that most of Batman's rogues have down in this series alone. Psychotic rage, the lack of originality, the bibliophilla/bibliomania. Speaking as someone on the spectrum myself, I can't help but feel there might be signs of Aspergers in the character as well, given how quickly and quietly he seems to absorb knowledge from his prized tomes with such concentration, plus the fact that he seems to have trouble understanding or meeting people on their emotional levels.

@samrizzardi2213

3 жыл бұрын

He could be remodeled as an obsessive reader of dark web forums and hacked government sites.

@katielinzie7444

2 жыл бұрын

He’s always been one of my favorites! In the modern day, I could imagine him as a sort of foil to the Riddler

@katielinzie7444

2 жыл бұрын

@@samrizzardi2213 That could be interesting

@kjthekunoichi

2 жыл бұрын

Wow.... your comment is relatable too😊😊👍👍

@InkfinityOkamix3

2 жыл бұрын

@@katielinzie7444 I think modern day Riddler has a lot in common with Bookworm. I think they’d make a very interesting team, actually.

A very polite fight, can you take your glasses off before we take your head off.. ahh those were the days..

Bookworm and False Face were the best one shot villains. McDowall is superb in everything.

@bufnyfan1

3 жыл бұрын

Malachi Throne (who played False Face) said there was never another "False Face" episode as children found the character "terrifying"

@williamhaynes4800

2 жыл бұрын

@@bufnyfan1 He was also upset with the fact he never got to show his real face in either episode. That is why you see "Special Guest Villian - ? as False Face". at the beginning of both episodes and after the cliffhanger. He only sanctioned the use of his name at finale. Still a very good storyline.

@lloydkline1518

2 жыл бұрын

r ❤ false face villain: great episodes

@evil778

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine that false face at least part of the inspiration Two-Face.

@charlescameron6017

Жыл бұрын

Two-Face is a very old Batman comic book villain going back to the 1940s.

I have been reading Batman comics for many years, but this is the first time I see "The Bookworm". I love the character. His looks, his personality, his music... And he's funny as well. Trying to use a book about self control to beat someone. And that scream at 5:54!!

@nicholasfarrell5981

10 ай бұрын

That's because he only appeared in this episode and the DC Animated movie "Batman vs Two-Face" (though not voiced by Roddy McDowell, who had passed away), which was set in this universe. The rights to the '66 characters have always been tricky to navigate, which is why they never transitioned into the comics proper; plus, the only attempt that was made to duplicate one of them (Maxie Zeus, meant to be a comic book version of King Tut) completely missed the whole point of what made them so entertaining in the first place.

Later on Roddy McDowall will voice Mad Hatter in "Batman TAS".

@JYDY-if5rf

3 жыл бұрын

Roddy mcdowall will also voice snowball in Pinky and the brain

@geraldstephens6612

3 жыл бұрын

He was best suited to voice the Mad Hatter.

@SerpentorTheEmperor

3 жыл бұрын

When he screams "Why?!" as The Bookworm, he sounds almost exactly as in "Batman TAS" episode "Perchance to a Dream" when Mad Hatter tells Batman why he trapped him into fantasy world ("You, of all people, have the gall to ask me that? You ruined my life! I was willing to give you whatever life you wanted, just to keep you out of mine!").

@treytostie1408

3 жыл бұрын

Curiouser and curiouser.

@kevindavis296

2 жыл бұрын

Decades later in 1992-98 he voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman TAS

Very cool that Roddy embodied the Bookworm and voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman the Animated Series.

"I have no originality! I'm a master of stolen plots!" About 95% of best selling authors could say the same things

His scream at 5:55 is so funny

@MarioSonicPhillyFan700

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

Roddy McDowell was great at this role. There was also another role he was famous for that people forget. He played Peter Vincent, the tv vampire killer in the hit 80's horror movie Fright Night with William Ragsdale and Chris Sarandon.

RIP Francine York ("Miss Limpett"). She once said that she never married because "No Prince Charming ever came along with a size 10 slipper" What a tragedy

Roddy was having a blast playing Bookworm

everyone had the time of their life in that series

RIP Roddy McDowell, the soft-spoken & underrated legend 👏🏻 (Fright Night's Peter Vincent - Vampire Hunter🧛🏻‍♂️🦇, Black Hole's V.I.N.cent🌀, Planet of the Apes Cornelius [& Galen]🦍🦍, Batman's Bookworm📚 [&Batman TAS's Mad Hatter🎩!], The Invaders Lloyd Lindstrom👽🛸, Buck Rogers Govoner Soroyan🚀& Hell House's Ben Fischer🏚️)... my fav roles of his... 👏🏻👍🏻🙂

@charlescameron6017

Жыл бұрын

You left out one of his other horror fantasy turns as the very first protagonist in The Night Gallery TV movie pilot. One of the best overall made for TV movies.

Love the outfit he is wearing and the sound of leather crackling

4:08 Sorry, Joker, he missed this episode 🤓🤛

this villain deserves more recognition

McDowell's calm and whispering like tone of his voice while giving the "Books,books...I inherit the wisdom..." lines worked really well, giving the character a sort of mental stability/thinking man's villain.

Lol, I just love the way the bookworm, so pleasantly insults his henchmen. Lol 😆 .

@mattbartolovich8228

2 жыл бұрын

skeletor was the master of insults

The henchmen were aptly named but naming the moll Lydia only works if she was tattooed with literary quotes under that red frock. The writers must have been out to lunch when they missed the opportunity to name her Paige Turner.

More leather and bondage from William Dozier. God bless him.

@gregoryandrews8481

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, this show has 60's morals all over it..hot babes , tight costunes..

@psychoticmortacarn

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, a lot of old books were bound in leather, so thematically there is an excuse

@geraldcolsher9642

2 жыл бұрын

Robin in bookworms clutches so hot

Funny how every times he moves in that suit it sounds like a cheap fake leather couch..lol.

The way you can hear his jacket when he moves

Love how he was gonna whomp that chick with a book...

@DJBSharpMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Made funnier by the fact it was one about "self-control"

@gregoryandrews8481

2 жыл бұрын

This show was very sexist...which we loved

Oh now I get when jack nickelson put on the glasses and said you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses would you

@charlescameron6017

Жыл бұрын

There's an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs does put on a pair of glasses and says to his antagonist you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you whereupon said bad guy nails him right in the face comically breaking the glasses and Bugs replying you know I believe he would!

If you like McDowall here, catch him on KZread just a year earlier as the lead in the surreal movie, "Lord Love a Duck".

That "Secret of Success" novel looks strangely like a telephone book.

@andrewmihovich4252

3 жыл бұрын

I figured it was nonfiction, but other than that, yes.

Pre-Cornelius is really pissed off here at times, but at least he got his vision fixed in time to read the ancient scrolls without having to wear the goggle glasses.

I would so love a suit like that or similar to that. Or at least that hat.

@mlongpre100

3 жыл бұрын

with or without the light ?

@tyvillianheartthrob1856

3 жыл бұрын

That suit seems like it would be a popular cosplay at comicon.

@alexanderhicks4499

3 жыл бұрын

@@mlongpre100 with, always hard to find good book lights

@eduardo_corrochio

3 жыл бұрын

The costumes and sets and props on this series were awesome. That's part of why I love having the blu-ray set so much; you can see _so much_ detail now.

Peter Vincent, Vampire slayer

I wish I could memorize my Chemistry text book the night before exam, just as the Bookworm did.

@crazyralph6386

Жыл бұрын

Haha, Roddy’s character in Columbo had a PhD in Chemistry at age 21 😂

4:05 - Michael Keaton's Batman did not take this advice to heart.

I love this guy he should be in more Batman movies ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤he the greatest villain ever❤❤❤

I wish The Bookworm's theme song were on KZread. Also Bookworm got one episode. That's it. He's an underrated character.

@phillyflash43

Жыл бұрын

Definitely one of the one-off characters that deserved another go. Roddy's over the top portrayal fits right into this series, even though it didn't originate in the comics. I was looking for that harpsichord music too 🎹🎹🎵

@davidgradwell8830

10 ай бұрын

Nelson Riddle composed the music for Batman 1966. He also composed the score for Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962.) When he started on the music for the Bookworm episodes, Riddle re-used some incidental music from "Lolita." If you watch that movie, the "Bookworm" theme pops up within the first 5-10 minutes! :)

@evil778

10 ай бұрын

@@davidgradwell8830 Oh my word, you're right! I looked up the soundtrack and found that it was in "Quilty's Theme"!

Loved the Bookworm episodes. Wished there were more. And loved the musical motif accompanying the bookworm theme.

Many of the guest villians have said that they were encouraged to overact and exaggerate which is so "wrong" for "proper acting" technique

@nicholasfarrell5981

10 ай бұрын

Hilariously, that's why we saw so much of King Tut; Victor Buono was a serious dramatist, and relished the opportunity Batman gave him to be silly.

I forgot all about the villian "Bookworm", they could definitely re-calibrate his character as a present day Marvel villian.

For those who love roddy mcdowall will love his narration of batman 1989

Roddy McDowall was so gorgeous especially in this TV series he looks so hot and he was such a great actor!

I just finished watching the first double-episode with the Bookworm, and I must say I really enjoyed it! I like how, while not doing a complete 180, it took a turn towards being a bit more serious. Greatly helped by Roddy's acting.

Love that leather jacket! And the hat!

He showed up in the Batman ‘66 comics, piloting a robotic dinosaur, the “Bronte-saurus”. :)

Poor Robin...knocked out cold with that knock out gas...and tied up

@berliner0

2 жыл бұрын

He said it always puts him to sleep lol

@dickgrayson4406

2 жыл бұрын

@@berliner0 awwweee.. poor robin...always knocked out and used as bait for batman 😏

Batman 2021: Bookworm suffering from depression due to the internet, and audio books.

@Suchapill

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!! Sad and funny.

You can hear his suit squeak when Bookworm moves.

Roddy McDowell ("Bookworm") loved being on Batman. He wrote a letter telling producer William Dozier how much he enjoyed doing the role and hoped to be able to do it again. Unfortunately by the second season, ABC/Greenwood Productions were cutting the budget so much that it simply didn't happen

@only257

9 ай бұрын

Cool😊

The Bookworms costume was made to look like leather book binding material, and also notice the gold colored trim, like some books have. I liked that reading light on his hat.

Man, the series-original villains on this show were the best.

If only he played the Mad Hatter in this series. Him returning in TAS in the same role would have been magical.

@mattbartolovich8228

2 жыл бұрын

What's tas?

@AK-Drakoin

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattbartolovich8228 The animated series

@mattbartolovich8228

2 жыл бұрын

@@AK-Drakoin thank you

@wetzles

2 жыл бұрын

He would have been much better as the Mad Hatter. His small stature and wonderful dialect.

Roddy McDowall played the mad hatter in Batman the animated series and Snowball in the Pinky and the Brain rest in peace Roddy McDowall

Interesting casting coincidence, the actor who played "Printer's Devil" also played McDowell's older brother in an episode of the original Mission Impossible called "The Puppet"

@roberthaworth8991

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen that same supporting actor in a few different places, but I can't recall them.

@Suchapill

3 жыл бұрын

If it's quirkly and intellectual. It's Roddy!

I remembered Bookworm though I had forgotten the bit about the leather jacket. Interestingly, there was a one-shot Bat-villain in the comic books (decades later) that used some of the same motif. Corpses start showing up in Gotham, each dressed in a numbered leather jacket. "The Librarian" was a frustrated librarian, unhinged by the profession's rejection of his arguments that there was a grievous error in the Dewey Decimal System and some subject was assigned the incorrect number. So he goes on a spree - selecting people who correspond in some way to a Dewey Decimal category (like a housewife to "domestic science" or "cooking", and a golf pro to "sports"), kidnapping them, killing them, and dressing the body in a leather jacket with the number corresponding to the Dewey Decimal number for the subject.

@nicholasfarrell5981

10 ай бұрын

Interesting, I thought that Maxie Zeus was the only villain based on a character from this show.

I loved the book he almost hit her with was a book on self control.

My god... To be cursed with his incredible intellect and memory, a love for the written word and a desire to contribute to it, and no sense of creativity that he's aware of... That's the kind of madness that can only happen in Batman stories. DC, you need to bring Bookworm into modern Batman lore.

I can't be the only one who wanted to see him bash Limpid with that book

Roddy McDowall is the cutest boy ever. That's it.

Text'book' cerebral narcissist. Shame he's such a cutie pie as well.

@Warm_and_loveable

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Roddy McDowell on of my favorites

Somehow I can actually see him coming almost clean as he did in Gotham Academy. I mean he did help Olive, and then her friends save her (sort of) despite the crook scheme.

Roddy McDowall was a talented actor. I enjoyed his performance in the Planet of the Apes movies and tv series. He did the voice of Vincent the robot in The Black Hole and the Madhatter in Batman the animated series.

I just composed two compositions about this video or inspired by this video. It is original music and the videos are original. One is a song for Roddy with the bookworm costume in the thumbnail and the lyrics are inspired by this video.

This is the episode that was playing at the beginning of "Blankman"!

@williamhaynes4800

2 жыл бұрын

Affirmative.

Amazed to think Roddy McDowell would years later voice the Mad Hatter on Batman TAS

That's Roddy McDowell from Fright Night, he played Peter Vincent the Great Vampire Killer

@eduardo_corrochio

3 жыл бұрын

The man had a massive career playing interesting characters. Began when he was a little kid in the 1940's. Peter Vincent was a great role and a fun homage to TV horror hosts and also to horror actors like "Peter" Cushing and "Vincent" Price. Fright Night is my favorite vampire flick.

Book was CRAZY! He came so close to killing his lovely assistant. The book crashing over her pretty head would have killed her!

@garyasselstine9186

10 ай бұрын

Would he be "Judging" his girlfriend by "Throwing the Book" at her (Thank You! I'll be here all this week.)

@valuecalc

10 ай бұрын

@@garyasselstine9186, I'm afraid so.

@garyasselstine9186

10 ай бұрын

Imagine the bruise! He would have "bookmarked" her for certain.

@valuecalc

10 ай бұрын

@@garyasselstine9186, and excessively!

For a 1966 Batman villain, he is uncharacteristically creepy. I think the Kubrick Lolita-esque music just adds to that.

@nicholasfarrell5981

10 ай бұрын

The composer actually worked on Lolita as well, Bookworm's theme can be heard as part of the score in the movie.

Only now have I noticed that Bookworm's vinyl outfit loudly squeaks every time he moves. Quite distracting.

@alainarchambault2331

3 жыл бұрын

I would surmise his outfit was actually leather. Some of the biggest tomes used to be bound within leather covers.

@thefonzkiss

3 жыл бұрын

It’s meant to be leather. Like an old book binding.

@jackgrattan1447

3 жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss I'm well aware of that. Nonetheless, the vinyl squeaks. That's what I was commenting about.

@wwb16

3 жыл бұрын

its like the suit from seinfeld that george buys but it swooshes every time he moves

Definitely an underrated Batman villain. And a sharp dress too.

@crisantolizaola675

3 жыл бұрын

Psy 🤗🎮

@williamhaynes4800

2 жыл бұрын

I have the Bookworm theme as my phone's default ring tone.

"This fellow is almost as obnoxious as Batman!"

Bookworm: Oh dear me what feeble memories you have however Shades of Self Control: Bill Kane 527-1939....wait a second that was the phone book

Bookworm is very cute and endearing

@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974

2 жыл бұрын

i agree

When you flush the toilet while someone is in the shower 5:56

1,000 decibels would be heard all over the world. 310 decibels was heard 3,000 miles away and traveled seven times around the world. Even if it were somehow focused on s target, it would be obliterated.

I loved the Bookworm. Wish he was a regular.

Roddy could pull off any role.

The theme for Bookworm is amazing and fits his character. I wish someone can grab the music from this video and post it as his theme

@charlescameron6017

Жыл бұрын

There are free apps for that that you do not even have to download.

at 7:49 -- Wow, he had a better nose twitch than Elizabeth Montgomery.

Bookworm was a interesting character but he wasn't a dc comic character but maybe he was there is Cluemaster and The Ridder and Madhater so many but Bookworm was a mystery but he might of been the Ridders brother twin brother in the comic's? But I did like this character he was a little bit different to the rest using books to help his criminal empire and there was one thing it was books on magic I do seem to think he might of used them to? He did appear in the cartoon Batman & Robin series as well back then and so how was using spells and magic and other ancient texts but what was his real name that Bookworm it was very similar to a villain in dc comics who was a warlock and used magic? Roddy McDwall was brilliant he played this role perfectly I am guessing while doing this role he was playing a major role in the first Planet Of The Apes or was in Columbo which he also was brilliant and not forgetting he was in other television roles and then years later Fright Night insertingly was Adam West was offered the role he was in? And a couple Twilight Zones episodes and Outer Limits etc.

@scottgarrison1457

2 жыл бұрын

Planet of the apes was 5 or six years later

My favorite Batman villain, I wish he was in more shows and movies for Batman. Though I can’t really imagine anyone but Roddy playing him

Roddy McDowall is so handsome!

@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974

2 жыл бұрын

i agree

@dionbaillargeon4899

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. He's so sweet here, and makes the bookworm look oddly attractive.

@AlbertoMartinez-ps9bv

4 ай бұрын

He was gay!

@sdlock83

4 ай бұрын

@@AlbertoMartinez-ps9bv No one is gay unless they identify themselves as such. Roddy McDowell never identified himself as "gay." So he's not gay.

Always one of my favorite rogues! I wish DC would resurrect the character for the modern day! Maybe a female Bookworm could be interesting….

You can sure hear that costume.

I love the clarity. Was this shot on 35mm?

@jackgrattan1447

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

I truly enjoyed watching every single episode of "BATMAN" when it was on the air back in 1966. Please post only positive comments over here. ™

McDowell always reminds me of Anthony Perkins 🔪. . . without the cadence.

@masongarrett3066

3 жыл бұрын

You are so right

The Secret of Success looks a lot like a phone book.

i love bookworms facial expression at 9:33

Those pages looked more like that of a telephone directory than that in a self help book.