HP Newquist
Autor de This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go
Obras de HP Newquist
The Human Body: The Story of How We Protect, Repair, and Make Ourselves Stronger (Smithsonian: Invention & Impact) (2015) 24 copias
From Here to There: The Story of How We Transport Ourselves and Everything Else (Smithsonian: Invention & Impact) (2017) 16 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Miembros
- 601
- Popularidad
- #41,822
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 40
- ISBNs
- 34
Good toilet read.
My favourite section is probably "struck by lightning on the golf range."
Some very 2009 thoughts in there. There's sprinklings of subtle homophobia and quietly muttered racism. If you lived through that time period it won't kill you or anything though. It's also so USA-centric it often forgets to tell you where exactly he's talking about because he assumes you know.
Also I personally think the "horror meter" is completely wrong a lot of the time, but fear is very individual, isn't it?
I think one will know rather quickly when starting this book whether they will want to read the rest or not.… (más)