false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649525m/6240770.jpg 6240770 4 A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "My Life as a Hot Woman." 6423562 8 9 2009 The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment total:287|5:34|4:113|3:117|2:20|1:3| 287 1016 804 109 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:50:24 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 11:02:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:37:06 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:46:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 16:30:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 18:50:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Sep 18 19:58:55 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 20:16:53 -0700 2009 i must say i liked this one significantly less that his other tw...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 18:52:51 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 18:52:51 -0800 2009
Coming off from his bestselling book The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs risks life and limb (and possibly his marriag...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 06:56:57 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 06:28:11 -0800 2009 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-someth...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 18 15:08:55 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 07:17:45 -0700 2009 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 de...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 22:36:53 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:08:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 06:55:13 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 06:51:40 -0700 2009
There are a variety of experiments in this book, my favorite one being the month he outsourced h...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 18:50:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 18:57:41 -0700 2009 A. J. Jacobs's style of immersing himself in a project to write about it completely, so a book where he tackles a number of these experiments is wonderful. Exploring ideas from Radical Honesty, to overseas outsourcing, to Washingtonian civility, Jacobs gives his unique perspective to ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 08:41:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 12:14:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:18:16 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:29:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 00:27:24 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:45:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 01 09:04:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 05:39:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:23:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:20:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 06:30:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 06:49:33 -0700 2009 1
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Unlike his previous projects these are all shorter than a year in duration, much shorter. As such I found the structur...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 07:50:26 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 07:57:19 -0700 2009
Most experiments are extremely thought provoking ideas. Though sometimes absurd and frightening, Jacobs is ope...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 03:32:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 03:39:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 08:06:19 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 08:06:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6240770