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What? Are These The 20 Most Important Questions In Human History Or Is This A Game Of 20 Questions? (2011)

by Mark Kurlansky(Favorite Author)

3.01 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0802779069 (ISBN13: 9780802779069)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Walker & Company

review 1: I like Mark Kurlansky’s work, I really do. This one failed to resonate though. In What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or is This a Game of 20 Questions? every single sentence is a question. Yes, every single one.As much as I like Kurlansky and as much as I like questions, it just didn’t work for me. Let me put it this way, do you like being asked random questions for hours on end? Do you like no narrative thread in the books you read? Do you like endless and disjointed references to significant people and concepts throughout history with very little points of connection? How many pages of straight questions do you think that you can read without going insane? If you think your sanity would hold, this might be the book for... more you!
review 2: At the first question, I thought "Huh. This is a little strange." By the third question, I thought "Wow, this is annoying." By about question 5, I thought "I just gotta push through this book. It's only 82 pages, and I can add it to my books read pile."Around question 6, though, I got sucked in. A book that's entirely questions is an interesting conceit. Reading a book that's full of questions requires a subtle shift in the way I read a book: like reading Shakespeare or speech written in a dialect, it takes a while before the sentences flow. Kurlansky is a great author, sometimes very funny. Once I got into this book, I thought it was great, and full of some really interesting questions. I'd like to read it again, a bit slower, and really think through some of what he presents. less

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