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The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

by A.J. Jacobs

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For his first book, The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica from cover to cover in a quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically, he followed every single rule of the Bible -- from the Ten Commandments right on down to stoning adulterers.

Now comes a collection of his most hilarious and thought-provoking...moreFor his first book, The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica from cover to cover in a quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically, he followed every single rule of the Bible -- from the Ten Commandments right on down to stoning adulterers.

Now comes a collection of his most hilarious and thought-provoking experiments yet. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And which drives A.J.'s patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.)

Among the many adventures:

• He outsources his life. A.J. hires a team of people in Bangalore, India, to take care of everything in his life from answering his e-mails to arguing with his spouse.
• He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty -- a movement that encourages us to remove the filters between our brains and mouths. (To give you an idea of what happened, the name of the chapter is "I Think You're Fat.")
• He goes to the Academy Awards disguised as a movie star to understand the strange and warping effects of fame.
• He commits himself to ultimate rationality, using cutting-edge science to make the best decisions possible. It changes the way he makes choices big and small, from what to buy at the grocery store to how to talk to his kids. And his revelations will change how you make decisions, too.
• He attempts to follow George Washington's rules of life, uncovering surprising truths about leadership and politics in the twenty-first century. He also spends a lot of time bowing and doffing his hat.
• And then there's the month when he followed his wife's every whim -- foot massages, Kate Hudson movies, and all. Depending on your point of view, it's either the best or worst idea in the history of American marriage.
A mix of Bill Bryson, George Plimpton, and Malcolm Gladwell, A.J. explores the big issues of our time -- happiness, dating, morality, marriage -- by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. You'll be entertained by these stories -- some of which are new, some of which had their start in Esquire magazine. But you'll also learn to look at life in new ways.

The Guinea Pig Diaries is a book packed with both laughs and enlightenment -- and that's a promise we can make with Radical Honesty.(less)

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Published September 8th 2009 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2009)

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Jul 28, 2010

Michelle rated it

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I was planning on reading The Year of Living Biblically by the same author, but The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs was here and the other hasn't come in the mail yet.

However, I'm glad I read this first because I LOVED it! I think we should all read it. It chronicles the author's life as he (1) pretends to be a woman on a dating Web site, (2) outsources his personal life to assistants in India (including a book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSXdDvBa... ), (3) tries Radi...moreI was planning on reading The Year of Living Biblically by the same author, but The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs was here and the other hasn't come in the mail yet.

However, I'm glad I read this first because I LOVED it! I think we should all read it. It chronicles the author's life as he (1) pretends to be a woman on a dating Web site, (2) outsources his personal life to assistants in India (including a book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSXdDvBa... ), (3) tries Radical Honesty, (4) pretends to be a celebrity at an awards ceremony, (5) tries to make every decision completely rationally without feeling, (6) poses for a naked photo shoot, (7) lives by George Washington's personal rules for life, (8) tries not to multitask at all and finally (9) is his wife's slave for a month.

I liked it because he is a journalist (actually an editor at Esquire magazine) and he backs up all of his ideas and conclusions with interviews with professionals in different areas and by referencing lots of books. There is a full bibliography in the back, as well as a full list of George Washington's rules, etc.

Not only do I feel way more knowledgeable than before I read the book, it was really funny and entertaining -- I actually laughed out loud quite a few times.

It also gave me some perspective on life and made me think about my actions in ways I haven't before. It's hard to explain without you guys having read the book, but it just put things in a different perspective -- ironically, kind of the point of The Lost Symbol lol.

I felt like every chapter related to my own life and it actually made me want to make improvements lol.

I seriously think everyone should read this book. It was light and easy but seriously life changing -- at the very least it will make any reader put their actions into a perspective they may have never thought of before.

I think we should all read this together -- I wouldn't mind. I would actually like a chance to read this again and try to implement some of the things he tries into my own life. I'm seriously addicted to this guy and I will probably end up reading everything he's written.

Overall rating -- A+.

Check out the author's Web site for more info on this and his other books, including The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-it-all. He also has a Twitter account that he actually updates, unlike most celebrities/authors.(less)

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Jul 22, 2010

Benjamin rated it

Shelves: nonfiction, humor, social, commentary, george, washington, outsourcing, radical, honesty, multitasking, first-edition, edition

This was a very short stunt book, but a satisfying one at least. The third in the author's library, except the Guinea Pig Diaries is a collection of small lifestyle experiments which Jacobs has conducted for other articles in magazines in the past. Overall, the book was entertaining but not necessarily authoritative in any way. It seemed the resulting commentary on said lifestyle experiments were comedic in nature and not really contributing much to serious social issues.[return]Still, it was a ...more

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Dec 15, 2011

Katie Welch rated it

Having read 'The Year of Living Biblically' by the same author, I already knew that I liked his writing style but I was wary that it wouldn't be as fulfilling to read. In a sense, I was right. This book wasn't as eye-opening as The Year of Living Biblically, in my opinion. However, it was extremely interesting to read and felt more light-hearted. The varying experiments and projects he conducted ranged from outsourcing almost every aspect of his life to pretending to be a woman on a dating site....more

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Aug 10, 2011

Liza rated it

Shelves: audio, adult-non-fiction

Never let it be said that I don't love the work of A.J. Jacobs.

What I will say is that Jacobs, who does neuroses like Microsoft does updates, works better on a grand scale. A collection of vignettes simply highlights the obsessive compulsive side and leaves much of the self-deprecating humor behind.

When Jacobs has a large-scale project to work on, he more frequently finds the odd corners that need to be explored; in a collection of stories, he doesn't really have the mot...more

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Aug 05, 2011

Lynne rated it

This is the 2nd book I have read by A.J. Jacobs and I really enjoy his style of writing and sense of humor. I would have to say that I enjoyed The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible a little more simply because it was a more in depth study than any of the experiments in this book.

Here Jacobs uses himself as a human guinea pig in order to explore various social issues ranging from telling the absolute truth, impersonating a bea...more

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Jul 30, 2011

Rebecca rated it

Quite enjoyed this book. I liked the writing form a lot and I can't wait to pick up more from this author. He also used to write for EW (my favorite magazine) and when he wrote this book, he was writing for Esquire, which I picked up at the State Library while in Melbourne and loved it. So we are already off to a good start!

This book was a mish-mash of various experiments the author undertook. Not multi-tasking. Farming out all his jobs. Doing everything his wife asks for a month. Perf...more

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Jul 21, 2011

Elliot Ratzman rated it

Life changing wisdom can be gleaned from unexpected places; I learned more from AJ Jacobs’ hilarious “immersion journalism” than from Gandhi’s “My Experiments with Truth.” This is the most stimulating book I’ve read in weeks—Jacobs is like a combination of Malcolm Gladwell, Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I’m a sucker for this sort of edutainment, and just went back to Borders’ bargain section to buy more copies. In previous books he tried to read an Encyclopedia and live “Biblically” for a year...more

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Jun 24, 2011

Jessa rated it

Witty, interesting ... and to its credit, not much else. Jacobs wasn't trying to be an amateur psychologist or discern human nature; he simply tells interesting stories, and allows readers to find humor and, if they desire, "truths of life" in that. I personally found his outsourcing his life and catering to all his wife's whims to be particularly interesting experiments.

My problem with the book, I guess, is that he has a tendency to overstate things. "Having someone in...more

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May 29, 2011

Khaya rated it

Shelves: memoirs, humorous-or-trying-to-be

Okay, I don't want to oversell this book or anything. It didn't quite live up to its predecessor, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible. But life with A.J. Jacobs is always fun, at least if you're a reader and not his long-suffering wife Julie (who does get hers in the end, happily).

With his trademark earnestness, A. J. Jacobs throws himself into a variety of life experiments, occasionally shocking or annoying unwitting b...more

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Mar 22, 2011

Alisha rated it

Shelves: non-fiction, humor

So, I’m totally going to admit this. The only reason I even knew about The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is because it’s scheduled to become a pilot entitled My Life as an Experiment starring Paget Brewster (whom I’ve decided to support in every endeavor considering she got kicked out of hit show for no discernible reason). After hearing about the pilot, I decided to read The Guinea Pig Diaries to see if I should be going into the show with the thought that it’s going to get can...more

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Feb 01, 2011

Allison rated it

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I really loved this book. Interactive, investigative journalism is my favorite. I love when people immerse themselves in the story, or try to live that life for a set period of time. AJ Jacobs is the king of doing just that. He's written two previous books: The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All, which I have yet to read, but I'm pretty sure I will. The Guinea Pig Diaries is a book of essays that could stand alone, but some call back to previous experiments. I think most were original...more

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Jan 06, 2011

Judy rated it

I love the books of A.J. Jacobs and this one is no exception. In The Guinea Pig Diaries, Jacobs devotes a month each to several "experiments". He outsources his life to two firms in Bangalore, India--this was actually an on-going experiement--and representatives of the firms took care of his schedule, answered his email, argued with his wife, and even, on occasion, read to his son at bedtime. He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty, which is removing all filters between the bra...more

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Aug 17, 2010

Cassandra rated it

Recommends it for: no one

Shelves: nonfiction

I didn't realize Jacobs had written and published another book. When I found mention of this book on his website, I immediately headed over to the library to check it out.

Well... I'm disappointed. The previous two books covered long term challenges (reading the entire encyclopedia and a second challenge to live according to one interpretation of Biblical rules for an entire year). This book was about a series of short term challenges, such as outsourcing his personal life to India, ...more

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Jul 19, 2010

Ensiform rated it

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The journalist author notes that being essentially ordinary in life, he must put himself in extraordinary situations in order to get a story. He relates some of these: outsourcing his life, by hiring personal assistants in India; posing online as his attractive nanny in order to get her an date (something not so unheard-of, perhaps); living like George Washington for a while (it boils down to not gossiping and bowing instead of shaking hands); saying exactly what is on his mind at all times; tr...more

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Jul 11, 2010

Jill rated it

Shelves: memoir, nonfiction

Jacobs lives his life in memoir, narrating to himself and eventually, to us. It's good then that he leads himself through a life worth hearing about (although I'm sure other reviewers will disagree - we do pick our friends, after all, and Jacobs may not be your type.) I enjoyed his other two books, and was interested to see what other experiments he'd tried on himself.

We all know someone who has tried being vegetarian, or going without a car, or generally making New Year's resolu...more

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Jul 09, 2010

Harkinna rated it

The Guinea Pig Diaries is a book of crazy stunts, not unlike the stunts I dream up to try in my life. What fun to read about someone else pulling these silly stunts! And boy, is the author's wife a saint, which the author knows. His first two books I have heard of but not read: The Year of Living Biblically, and The Know-It-All.

The book collects Jacobs’ various articles written about experiments doing things such as outsourcing his life to India, or trying to behave rationally all of...moreThe Guinea Pig Diaries is a book of crazy stunts, not unlike the stunts I dream up to try in my life. What fun to read about someone else pulling these silly stunts! And boy, is the author's wife a saint, which the author knows. His first two books I have heard of but not read: The Year of Living Biblically, and The Know-It-All.

The book collects Jacobs’ various articles written about experiments doing things such as outsourcing his life to India, or trying to behave rationally all of the time, or living a brutally honest life. These are all funny and some are even laugh-out-loud funny. When he outsources his life, he has personal assistants in India respond to all of his emails and buys all of his gifts online. He got the idea from the book, The World is Flat, which describes how much of our day to day lives is already outsourced (at least that is what I gather, because I have not read that book). He loves not having to worry about all of this email, and his assistants, in addition to being cute, write the best email responses! The brutal honesty chapter was one of my favorite chapters because that's I how I try to live my life. I am a direct communicator. I don’t beat around the bush. But I suppose 90 percent of my readers already know this. Ha. Jacobs, on the other hand, often lies. Little white lies. We all tell them. But when he stops telling the lies, both large and small, he feels somehow liberated. But he kind of feels bad for hurting people’s feelings too.

Because he wrote all of the articles at sometime in the past, he adds a coda to the end of all of the experiments. He said the rationality project has been the most lasting or life altering. In that experiment, he read up of cognitive behavioral psychology and tried to put what he had learned into action. I do this when driving; when I am in traffic I try to rationally remember that the other lanes only seem to be moving more quickly, because it's an optical illusion that the lanes look like they are moving more quickly.

His most genius experiment is spending the month being his wife’s slave. He does everything she asks, including turning up the volume on the TV manually even though she has the remote in her hands. His wife does the coda in this chapter, where she reveals the positive impact the experiment had on their relationship. Jacobs realized how much of the household work his wife does in comparison to him. Maybe this is something we should all try?

Jacobs said in his notes that he responds to all emails he gets. So as an experiment, I emailed him a few things I thought might interest him: 1. A photo of Bumpass, Virginia because of a reference to a similar sounding town in Virginia found in the book, 2. The essay I wrote about men sitting down to pee in Germany, something also mentioned in the book, and 3. I asked him to respond.

And he did! I was so excited! I got the response and did a little happy dance, until Brent reminded me that in his brutal honesty experiment he coped to having lied to a bad poet to protect the poet’s feelings. So his calling the German men peeing essay hilarious might have just been his being nice to me.

In any event, the book is good fun and the main qualms I have with it are the cover and the title. The cover sucks and the title is not as enticing as it could have been. If the book had not been recommended by someone else, I never would have picked it up. I did not tell Jacobs this when I emailed him though: it seemed gratuitously mean...maybe I am not as brutally honest as I think. (less)

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May 09, 2010

Kelly Hager rated it

I cannot tell you just how much I love him. He's so incredibly funny and this was just as good as his other two (The Know-It-All, about reading the entire encyclopedia for fun, and The Year of Living Biblically, where he spent a year following all Biblical commands).

In this one, he does several little social experiments--he outsources his life to India, for example. (His "assistants" order Christmas presents, talk to his wife and relatives for him and once read a story to...more

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Apr 12, 2010

Malbadeen rated it

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I checked this book out from the library to scan and see if it would be a good gift for my (non-fiction-only reading) brother. I ended up reading the whole thing including all the notes within a few sittings.
I love the idea of doing something wholly different for a month at a time. I love finding out how "the other side" lives. For about a year, I was a "business woman". I wore suites, I flew places and gave presentations and I went to fancy dinners. It was soooo intere...more

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Feb 09, 2010

Jennifer rated it

Shelves: favorite

A.J. Jacobs has created his own little niche market: conducting experiments in his life and then writing about them. The first of these books, The Know-It-All, chronicled his experience reading every single page of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover. He followed that up with The Year of Living Biblically, in which he spent a year trying to follow every rule in the Bible as literally as possible. I loved both of these books, so when I heard that Jacobs had a new book last year, I was...moreA.J. Jacobs has created his own little niche market: conducting experiments in his life and then writing about them. The first of these books, The Know-It-All, chronicled his experience reading every single page of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover. He followed that up with The Year of Living Biblically, in which he spent a year trying to follow every rule in the Bible as literally as possible. I loved both of these books, so when I heard that Jacobs had a new book last year, I was thrilled. He has a very funny, accessible writing style but manages to convey a lot of information in an entertaining way. He kind of reminds me of Bill Bryson in that way; you manage to learn while laughing.

In this book, Jacobs conducts a series of mini-experiments—ranging from outsourcing everything in his life to a company in India to posing nude to trying to live like George Washington. There are nine experiments in all (one for every chapter). One of my favorite experiments was Project Rationality, which involved trying to overcome all the biases, false assumptions, and warped memories with which our flawed brains make decisions. Just reading this made me realize that my life is a series of false assumptions and half-truths.

Although I found the books entertaining and highly readable, I was a bit disappointed. I suspect the reason is that these are mini experiments instead of immersive, year-long experiments like the ones he wrote about in his previous books. I ended up wanting more and felt like the book was over way too soon. Although it is a good introduction to Jacobs's writing style and isn't a bad read, I enjoyed The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically much more. However, if the worst I can say about the book is that "I wanted more of it. It was too short," then that isn't so bad, is it? Just read it; you'll like it.

Excerpts from the chapter where Jacobs tries to experience fame by attending the Oscars as the actor Noah Taylor: Even more striking, though, is that Noah Taylor and I shared the same haircut and eyeglasses. For reasons I'm still puzzling out, in my mid-twenties I decided to let my hair grow down to my shoulders. This wasn't cool long hair, mind you. It was shapeless and stringy, like Ben Franklin or a meth addict. And the glasses? They were thick. black, and clunky. I suppose I was going for a retro intellectual vibe, something in the Allen Ginsberg area. What I got was Orville Redenbacher.(less)

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Nov 25, 2009

Carrie rated it

Shelves: audiobooks, funny, how-to, human-behavior

A.J. Jacobs has one of the best jobs in the world. An editor at Esquire magazine, the man writes and edits essays on pop culture and social experiments. This book is a collection of articles (with follow-up notes) written over the course of a year for Esquire. He spends about a month on each, trying out various approaches to life. These approaches include living in accordance with George Washington's code of conduct (don't touch your genitals in front of people), outsourcing his life to India (a...more

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Oct 20, 2009

Susy Flory rated it

I love AJ Jacobs, and enjoyed this book, but at times it rehashed stories from The Know-It-All. Probably my favorite story is the time he was forced to pose naked for Esquire so he could understand what women go through when they pose for cheesecake pictures. The photographer, named Nigel, kept telling him to "Sook in yer goot!"

In Jacobs's own words: "My goot? Nigel taps his stomach.

Ah, he's talking about my problematic belly. I sook in some air.

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Sep 29, 2009

Kate rated it

This book was a mix of humor and food for thought. The author spent a month each immersing himself in some very disparate situations. One month, he met with the founder of the "Radical Honesty" movement, which advocates not only never lying, not even "white lies," but even turning off the "filter" between what you think and what you say. Another month found him reseraching George Washington & trying to adhere to his 110 Rules. Yet another month, he put overseas ...more

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Sep 18, 2009

Abby rated it

aj jacobs is the man. yeah yeah yeah he's kind of a tool, he recycles his jokes, whatever. anyone willing to spend a month checking his email with the TV, phone, and radio off is a hero in my book (see the chapter on unitasking).
i must say i liked this one significantly less that his other two. the problem laid in the fact that each experiment is only devoted a short essay rather than a whole book. don't get me wrong, i doubt i would enjoy an entire book about what it was like posing nake...more

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Sep 07, 2011

Kim rated it

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Recommended to Kim by: Melki

Shelves: humour, non-fiction

The third of A.J. Jacobs life-experiment books, unlike the others which focused on one idea only, this book encompasses a variety of different experiments A.J. makes with his life.

Firstly I enjoyed this one a lot more than The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible. There was a lot more humour in this one and it flowed much better. His last book just felt overly long whereas here each experiment is only fairly short. I also like...more

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Sep 07, 2011

♥Xeni♥ rated it

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Shelves: humor, non-fiction, memoir, writing, biography

I finished this book in record time. It was very easy to read, had a good pace (sometime too good of a pace... more details in some areas, please!) and was amusing while also being educational.

I think I will try implementing some of Jacobs' ideas into my own life. Perhaps not to the extent that he decided to, but there are quite a lot of Washington's Rules which are still applicable! That, and finding a very rational toothpaste is something I've been trying to do for years. Okay, so pe...more

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Jan 17, 2011

Katie rated it

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Book number 5 of 2011 done...holy lord...at this rate, I'll read my whole collection by the end of the year....or I probably won't. I'm glad this was book 5, I was excited for this book...and for good reason. This was a very good book. My favorite books right now are ones where the author's voice is his own and sounds like his own, like it would be if he were speaking to me (I used to get in trouble in 11th grade english, because my voice sounded too much like my speaking. Well suck it, cause th...more

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Nov 05, 2009

Shiela rated it

Shelves: non-fiction, humour

This man is hilarious. This book is hilarious. His interpretations of the results of his “experiments” are pee-in-your-pants funny. What more can I say?

Coming off from his bestselling book The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs risks life and limb (and possibly his marriage) undergoing a series of experiments and entertaining his fans with the results. Have you ever wondered how the world would receive you if you were a faithful practitioner of Radical Honesty—as in telli...more

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Nov 06, 2009

Turi rated it

Shelves: immersion-journalism

A.J. Jacobs's two previous books, The Year of Living Biblically One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible and The Know-It-All One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World fall into a category I really like - the "guy-takes-a-year-off-to-do-something" (it's usually a male, for some reason. Women must be too smart to do this stuff.) Whether it's making no trash, trying to qualify for the Olympics, or tracing Odysseus's voyage, I find thi...more

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Sep 20, 2009

Debbie (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it

Shelves: challenge

You know who Jacobs is. You’ve probably heard about him, even if you didn’t read his book. He’s the guy who read all the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He followed that up in his second book by attempting to live by the precepts of the Bible. I will never forget the chapter where he decides to take up stoning the sinners.

This new book also falls into the genre of what I call Challenge Books.
I like these. The woman who visited a different church each Sunday for a year. T...more

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Oct 15, 2010

Julia rated it

Shelves: non-fiction

This is the 3rd book of Jacobs' that I've read, the first 2 being: "The Year of Living Biblically" and "The Know it All." These books are not novels, but self commentary on quests and experiments that the author puts himself through.

My favourie experiments in this book were: The Unitasker, Whipped, and Do I Love my Wife. Jacobs is a funny guy. I can connect with his sense of humour. He makes me laugh out loud.

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A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author, Esquire editor and human guinea pig.

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