I just finished reading The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World today in the train and at KFC.
Purchased from amazon.com in January this year, this easy-reading and hilarious book has delighted me now and then. The author, A. J. Jacobs, has a witty pen.
As Wikipedia puts it,
It recounts his experience of reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica; all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition, extending to over 33,000 pages with some 44 million words. He set out on this endeavour to become the “smartest person in the world”. The book is organized alphabetically in encyclopedia format and recounts both interesting facts from the encyclopedia and the author’s experiences. It is a light-hearted book, with the author combining his sarcastic wit with odd-ball trivia in everyday experiences.
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