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Cargando... More Information Than You Require (edición 2008)por John Hodgman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. humor in form of miscellany, didn't finish--kind of interesting but not really for reading straight through Another collection of fake facts and fallacious anecdotes, sprinkled liberally with a bizarre obsession with molemen. No idea what the print book is like, because by far the best parts of the audiobook were the cameos from random people like Paul Rudd and Ira Glass, as well as the interplay between Hodgman and his friend Jonathan Colton. A lot of the parts with no costars dragged quite badly: the boring fake jury duty orientation video, the interminable page-a-day calendar (though that did have a couple of funny moments), the weird alternate history involving molemen. The list of 700 molemen names was only fun because it was read before a live audience; it would have been unbearable as just a droning list that went on and on. In short, some of this was pretty enjoyable, but I doubt I'll go out of my way to find the last book in this series. My review of Hodgman's previous book of bald face lies masquerading as reference material can ALMOST equally apply to this entry. While still a delightful distraction from real facts, I didn't care for this one quite as much. While the first book returned to the Hobo Rebellion as a central touchstone (and tickled me every time) this entry uses tales of Mole Men dwelling beneath the earths crust as a similar touch stone with much less consistent success. The entry also seemed to smother the reader a little bit at times as if too accurately spoofing old academic journals. But that being said, if you liked the first you'll still like this and if you should happen across this one first go ahead and read it. No matter what order you read them in, it's still funny and still not true. Amuses me, and I imagine it might amuse John Hodgman too, that second among the top genre/shelves listed by Goodreads readers for this book is "Non-Fiction". This book is many things...but that it ain't. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:The New York Times bestseller by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman??The Daily Show??s ??Resident Expert? and the PC in the iconic Apple ads??picks up exactly where his first book left off. In fact, ??the new volume is in every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it??s clearly superior.?(The Onion AV Club) In 2005, John Hodgman published his first compendium of Complete World Knowledge, The Areas of My Expertise, a handy volume of fake trivia and made-up facts. Hodgmania was born. Virtually overnight, John Hodgman was whisked from tweedy obscurity to the high ether of minor celebrity. And from his strange new vantage point as a Famous Minor Television Personality, Hodgman realized that there is some world knowledge yet to be documented. And so he returned to exactly where he had left off??namely, page 256 of the paperback edition of The Areas of My Expertise. And he brought with him: MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE Which, naturally, begins on page 257. Like its predecessor, More Information than You Require consists of brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes such as: THE PAST (because there is always more of it) THE FUTURE (because they say there is still some left) MOLE-MEN (including a list of 700 Mole-man names) GAMBLING, THE SPORT OF THE ATHSMATIC MAN (including hermit crab racing) CRYPTOGEOGRAPHY (including Canada) HOW TO BE A FAMOUS MINOR TELEVISION PERSONALITY (Hint: Go on television) AND NOW, the relatively pocket-sized and inexpensive paperback edition includes even more MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, updated to include the very latest in implausibility. PLUS!: This paperback edition includes a special self-expanding fold-out edition of THE TAXONOMY OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE, which you have probably never seen before because it has been c No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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