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Chargement... The Book of General Ignorance : The Noticeably Stouter Edition (2009)par John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was an interesting book full of trivia that nobody knows. Now if only I had friends geeky enough to quote it at. :D I didn't really find this all that humorous, except for the one bit towards the end about the theory of the wise man visiting Jesus who put off getting a gift for the savior until too late and the shops were closed, so had to go halfsies on the frankincense. I giggled at that. I probably would have rated this higher had I read it instead of listening to the audio. The authors, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, read this one, and while they didn't do nearly as badly as some authors I've listened to, I found them to be a bit boring. One of the Johns has a quite raspy/gravelly voice, and I kept hoping for someone to get him a glass of water or a lozenge or something. Then there were the accents given to quoted materials, which were... well, just not good. I say it in almost every time I review an audiobook: Please stop doing voices. It is not necessary, and almost never adds to the performance. I'd rather the reader err on the side of too subtle than too much. But, nonetheless, a good book full of interesting stuff. Recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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I already owned the original "QI Book of General Ignorance" before buying this and finding it was just an expanded, revised edition of the original. Still, what is new adds to the quality of the publication; we find that Monday the 27th is considered the unluckiest day of the month, that Wales is the home of the = sign and of course that America is named after the Welshman Richard Ameryk.
Combine al this with the fact that Stephen Fry can do no wrong and you have the ingredients of a very good book. ( )