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Second Book Of General Ignorance (2010)

by John Lloyd(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0571269664 (ISBN13: 9780571269662)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Faber and Faber Ltd

review 1: This has been sat in our bathroom along with a range of similar books, and I've read it over the course over a few months by reading a question and answer every now and then and slowly working my way though the book. I wouldn't recommend it to be read in one sitting, but it's enjoyable to read in small doses to learn something new. While I imagine most people would dip in and out of it randomly, it's arranged thematically, with one question often leading into the next and works well being read in order. It's the type of thing I might buy for someone if I knew they liked random facts and didn't know what else to get them. It's a good book to sit on a bathroom shelf.
review 2: This is a rather silly book but it is perfect for bathroom reading, being divided into ... moreseveral hundred "chapters" by a Q&A format. Like the first "Book of General Ignorance" (2006), it draws on the British television game show "Quite Interesting." A quiz show, the last round of QI is called the "General Ignorance" round. In it, questions to which the answers are seemingly obvious are asked but the answers are never what is commonly believed to be true. The host of the television show, Stephen Fry, wrote the introduction to this compendium of questions to which everybody knows the answer but everybody is wrong. The subjects touch history, science, religion, literature, sports, medicine and more. It may be silly, but it is fun ... and one can actually learn something from it. less

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