by Mark Leyner, Billy MD Goldberg
Really good, and weird, facts and trivia.
Although the facts are interesting the link pieces are annoying at best and truly disjointed at worst, I suppose it's ment to show the mind-set and how they link from one issue to another but a few more interesting factoids would have been more fun for me. Sans link pieces and with more facts they w...
The title made me choose this book. My expectations: death by laughter. But of course it wasn’t funny. As my friend Aly says, medicine isn’t funny. Some questions were interesting but most of them were plain ‘ol stupid!WILL STARING AT AN ECLIPSE MAKE YOU GO BLIND? Things to avoid staring at: • a wom...
I hate to say this (yes, really!) but in this age, you can find the answer to almost anything online (and I did). No, I don't just mean wikipedia either. And If you've spent a reasonable amount of time researching things, you can filter out the garbage from the useful stuff too.....Most of the thing...
The title question is not difficult for anyone who remembers basic biology. While the questions and answers were often juvinile, there were a few interesting questions and some genuinely funny parts.
I wish I'd been the editor on this one. The question-answer part of the book was excellent and fun....Who came up with the idea to insert little sideboxes with conversations between the authors? Was it strictly to fill up space? That's certainly what it felt like. I'd have liked more question-answer...