More Information Than You Require
by:
John Hodgman (author)
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...
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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 THEATHSMATIC 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 carefully hidden. UNTIL NOW.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594483646 (1594483647)
ASIN: 1594483647
Publish date: November 3rd 2009
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Reference,
Literature,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Trivia
Series: COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE (#2)
Everything, down to every single one of the 700 names for mole-men, made me laugh and fall in love with the world again for the 30 seconds at a time that I spent reading this book.
It may be a mistake to read this from front to back like any ol' book. I probably would have enjoyed it more in bite-sized, fake trivia chunks since I had to push myself to keep going, despite finding it pretty clever.
I feel a little guilty adding this to goodreads because I "read" the audiobook version of this, and listened to it over the course of a couple of weeks while walking the dog. Now most people in the neighbourhood are sure I'm nuts, because this often got me giggling insanely. (Before this, they wer...
Hodgman's fake trivia is hilarious, but I wanted a story. So, maybe some later time.