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Smile UK Store - QI: The Book of General Ignorance
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List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £4.76
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780571233687
ISBN: 0571233686
Label: Faber and Faber
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2006-10-05
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Studio: Faber and Faber
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Editorial Reviews:
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"To impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions compiled for the BBC panel game QI (Quite Interesting)."
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Summary: fun but tedious at times
Comment: This is a fun book to pick up and put down at leisure but it loses something for not being delivered by the dry tones of Stephen Fry. If you are an avid watcher of the series you will have heard most of these entries before but there are still some gems among them. Some of the explanations do go on and there seems to be a fascintaion with space that just doesn't excite me but there were a few chuckles along the way. At the end there is a disclaimer inviting readers to send in alternative answers or explanations which does dilute the whole thing a bit. Good for picking up trivia to delight your mates at the pub.
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Summary: Not entirely fact...
Comment: It's a good book, easy to read, informative and amusing. In fact, it's so informative that one is tempted to learn parts of it as ammunition for showing off how impressively clever you are to your friends; dismissing common knowledge as fiction is a satisfying thing to do. That is, until you come across something that the book claims to be true which you know in fact to be false (or more likely, not the entire truth). And by "know" I mean parts that cross over with my degree and which I have studied actual research journals on. Once I realised that the book takes liberties for the sake of sounding a bit impressive and sensational, I lost faith in pretty much everything else it claimed to be true. I'm sure alot of it is genuine, but how do you know which bits? And if it's not necessarily true, where's the fun in knowing it?
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Summary: Intrestingly fastinating
Comment: Having never seen an episode of QI, I was unsure what to expect from this book however i was not disappointed. It is a very readable and fascinating book showing you just how many things you think you know are wrong. I enjoyed reading it and read it over the weekend but my friends and relatives enjoyed it less so as i quizzed them, knowing they would get the answers wrong. A very interesting read for anyone wishing to extend their general knowledge.
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Summary: The Book of "Ah-ha!" Moments
Comment: This curious and endlessly diverting little tome will provide ammunition for those pub debate moments and settle pub quizzes rapidly. Be prepared however to annoy those over the niceties of the difference between 'highest' and 'tallest' in terms of the 'Everest is the highest mountain, discuss' type entry!
You can actually feel your mind expanding upon reading this.
Super - this is the sort of book that everyone finds diverting, though could have done with a more detailed index.
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Summary: Well worth the money
Comment: A really fantastic book. You'll soon start to realise everything you thought you knew is wrong, and you'll end up telling all your friends and relatives all your new-found knowledge!
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