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There's everything in here - history, science, pop culture, politics - and it's all fantastically clever. It's also a very quick read, and dragged in a couple places, but I loved this. In fact, I loved it so much, I'm handing it over to my sister who wants to read it next before I have to return...
Minus one star because I wish it were longer/more detailed, but what it did include was hilarious. On a personal note, I was thrilled to see June 28, 1997 (my wedding day) in there as the day Evander Holyfield announced that he was no longer in a relationship with his ear (Mike Tyson likes this), an...
Yes, it's a one trick pony. But it made me guffaw any number of times. Overstreet has his finger on the pulse of ... well, us as hive-mind. Some of the pictures he chose to represent historical people/events were hilarious. I thought the inclusion of the odd modern bit into the historical timeline (...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-history-of-world-according-to.htmlThe History of the World According to Facebook requires both an understanding of history and an irreverent sense of humor. As the title suggests, the book presents history from the ...
This was so funneh :) I kept bursting out laughing and people looked at me :) Haha! Amazing :D ((I didnt get some things.. i really need more education :P))http://basicallybooks1994.blogspot.com/