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The Book of General Ignorance
by John Mitchinson, Stephen Fry , Alan Davies , John Lloyd
*The book is inspired by a BBC comedy quiz show. Go to YouTube and watch it! It's funny.
How much you think you know? And even if you think you know enough information, do you think all of them are true?
This is what the book is about; it corrects the misconceptions or the mistakes that everyone thinks they're true in the common knowledge. There are so many things that will shock you and make you wonder how much we really know and for most important how much of it is true?
I loved getting to know that Mount Everest isn't really the tallest mountain on earth, it is the Mauna Kea it's 10,000 m (33,000 ft) tall while Mount Everest is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). Another thing that I liked is that piece of information about the driest place on earth, do you know that the driest place on earth is Antarctica and it's considered as a desert? Some of the continent parts have seen no rain since two million years (desert defined as a place that receives less than 25mm of rain a year) o_o!
I found it entertaining to read this book because it's comprehensive you can find information about anything and everything in it: animals, science, sports and places all are divided to questions and then followed by a paragraph answering the Q. You may find "some" silly things, things that you think they are not important to know, but generally the book is good, light and simply written. I only wished it contained a source of the informations that are mentioned.
by John Mitchinson, Stephen Fry , Alan Davies , John Lloyd
Malak Alrashed's review
Apr 15, 11
Recommended for:
People who love to know about animals, science, places and information. .
Read from April 05 to 14, 2011 — I own a copy, read count: 1
*The book is inspired by a BBC comedy quiz show. Go to YouTube and watch it! It's funny.
How much you think you know? And even if you think you know enough information, do you think all of them are true?
This is what the book is about; it corrects the misconceptions or the mistakes that everyone thinks they're true in the common knowledge. There are so many things that will shock you and make you wonder how much we really know and for most important how much of it is true?
I loved getting to know that Mount Everest isn't really the tallest mountain on earth, it is the Mauna Kea it's 10,000 m (33,000 ft) tall while Mount Everest is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). Another thing that I liked is that piece of information about the driest place on earth, do you know that the driest place on earth is Antarctica and it's considered as a desert? Some of the continent parts have seen no rain since two million years (desert defined as a place that receives less than 25mm of rain a year) o_o!
I found it entertaining to read this book because it's comprehensive you can find information about anything and everything in it: animals, science, sports and places all are divided to questions and then followed by a paragraph answering the Q. You may find "some" silly things, things that you think they are not important to know, but generally the book is good, light and simply written. I only wished it contained a source of the informations that are mentioned.
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Reading Progress
| 04/05/2011 | page 21 |
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7.0% | "So far the book is great and has so much information. Though I think it needs a sort of slow-careful reading." |
| 04/07/2011 | page 104 |
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36.0% | "Wow! I feel like a nerdy person reading all these stuff." 2 comments |
