The Know-It-All
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A hilarious, intelligent-trivia-packed tale from a man who read the entire ENCYLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. Early in his career, A. J. Jacobs establish himself putting his Ivy League education to work at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. After five years he learned which stars have fake boobs, which stars have toupees, which have both, and not much else. This unsettling realization led Jacobs on a life-changing quest: to read the entire contents of the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, all 33,000 pages, all 44 million words. Jacobs accumulates useful and less-so knowledge, and along the way finds a deep tie with his father (who attempted the same feat when Jacob’s was a child), examines the scenery of knowledge vs. intelligence, and learns how to be rather annoying at cocktail parties. Part memoir/part-education (or lack thereof), the chapters are organized by the letters of the alphabet.
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Within the first two pages of the book, A. J. Jacobs commits three syntactical errors: he says that he “brought D. H. Lawrence novels on trip,” when he should say he “took” them; he refers to the years since “graduating college,” when he should say since he “was graduated from college,” or at least ” since graduating from college”; and he says that he remembers “a couple things” from college, thought rumor has it that one of them is not the fact that he needs the preposition “of” in the expression “a couple of things.” I stopped reading the book at this point.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Really do not waste your time on this book. It is insulting to the reader it is so terribly written and his political jabs (against conservatives/Republicans) are thinly veiled and completely unwarranted and misplaced.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I establish this book really dull. I was very disappointed, since I had heard brilliant reviews about it. I was not expecting to read about the leader’s personal life throughout the whole book.
I would never recommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
arrogant, shallow, rude, mean-spirited, sophomoric, and openly anti-intellectual. it’s frightening the number of people who graduate from ‘excellent’ schools in this country lacking apt educated. i’m not at all surprised that an unpleasant ignoramus like this earns more money and has more steady employment than some of members of mensa. that’s about how things are in this country today: backwards.
furthermore, it’s truly saddening to see how many people reflect this was a excellent book, much less ‘hilarious’ and capable of boosting their intelligence (i quiver at the possibility.)
right self-improvement requires identifying your own MORAL ideals and confronting your character flaws. the leader didn’t do this and, frankly, he should. therapy also would have been a better choice than either publishing this book or buying and reading the EB.
skip this trash, go read something from classic literature, and then THINK about it and apply what’s best from it to your own life. then you will feel – and be – smarter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
All the money and high education in the world can’t buy you a brain. That is the impression I had after finishing this book, and what a long, hard slog it was. Anyone could have provided a better mixture of knowledge and personal introspection, but then again, must people don’t have the relations possible to write and publish such a like letter to themselves (with EB selctions thrown in as background). The main point of reading the EB take in to take in took a backseat to the fertility issues (which should have stayed behind clogged doors, or as the focus of an episode of The View or a Lifetime movie of the week). Weekends in the Hamptons and Italy. Bonding trips to London. Plus flip remarks amusing to smug NPR listeners. If that’s what you’re looking for, then dig in.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5