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A big thanks goes to Murder by Death for introducing me to this book. When I saw one of my library's digital services offering the audiobook of this, I had to give it a try. I am sadly remiss in my knowledge of World History with some minor exceptions, so I found this book's overview (tinged with ...
I'd never heard of mental_floss before stumbling upon this book at a B&N in August. We were there so my husband could stock up on holiday reading, but since it's fundamentally impossible for me to walk out of a bookstore without a book in my hand, I added this to the pile thinking it would be perfe...
TBR Busting #11Narrated by Johnny HellerAn audio file to keep should I ever have the company of a young enquiring mind. A good compliment to this is THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY
Every High school student/College freshman should have to read this book. It gives history of the US through 2010 and it makes it funny and readable.
Audiobook version, read by Johnny Heller. I suspect this book would have been much better in a regular book format, rather than on audio. The boring and repetitive lists of events at each chapter (?) start are probably laid out visually in such a way as to allow you to refer back during the meat of ...