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1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off (2012)

by John Lloyd(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0571297919 (ISBN13: 9780571297917)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

faber and faber

review 1: The researchers (Elves) from the TV show QI collect some of their favourite facts in this collection. The book is easy to read and the facts are kept to short lines - they have even added a section on the QI website with more information on each fact and their sources. This idea works great as it makes the book more fun to read, with further information or references available should you want them. Would also recommend listening to their weekly podcast - No Such Thing As A Fish
review 2: I won this in Goodreads First Reads.I love little fact books like this, but for some reason I didn't believe about half of these. I've studied human development, and some of the human development facts listed were only partially correct, not entirely correct, which lead me to ... moredoubt the credibility of some of the other facts (hence why I rated this as 3 stars).I absolutely love the layout of this book, though. Each fact has some previous connection to the fact listed before it which made this really delightful to read, and in many instances quite humorous.As a warning, this is a BBC book, so there are some swear words that Americans may not be comfortable with. less

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