The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616856779 (1616856777)
Publish date: October 28th 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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
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 ...