Reddit reviews The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
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Simon Schuster
A.J. Jacobs is his name. If anyone's interested the book is called The Know it All it's about Jacobs quest to become the smartest person in the world by reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
On that note, there's also A.J. Jacobs' The Know It All. Same premise, just with the goal of reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. Basically, the key to make money is to write, read, or do a bizarre, difficult thing over a long period of time and write a book about it.
To save time and still learn an awful lot, read The Know-It-All, AJ Jacobs's experience reading the encyclopedia.
Good writer (though quirky), funny anecdotes, all the best factoids from the book.
I read this just yesterday in The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs - the same guy that lived biblically for a year.
I rather liked Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language, which is about how language may have first developed (all conjecture of course, we can never really know, but he makes some interesting points). Bonus: He writes for the average person, meaning you don't necessarily have to know anything about linguistics to read the book. Downside: It's a bit pop-science. But I liked it anyway. :)
Edit: I've also heard good things about Ken Jenning's Maphead. Ken's really awesome anyway, you should read his stuff. Great sense of humor. And along the same line, AJ Jacob's The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World was really funny and interesting.
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I am an author who helped put together the biggest family tree in history, spent a year obeying the Bible literally, and read all 33,000 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. AMA!
Hi reddit. I’m AJ.
I’m an author, journalist, human guinea pig and also your cousin.
I’ve written four New York Times bestsellers -- The Year of Living Biblically, where I tried to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year, The Know-It-All, when I read all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Drop Dead Healthy, where I tried to become the healthiest man in the world and My Life as an Experiment where I went undercover as a woman, lived by George Washington’s moral code, impersonated a movie star, and more. A TV series based on The Year of Living Biblically will debut on CBS in the winter.
More recently, I spent three years trying to build the biggest family tree in history. The quest took me around the world.. I drank beer with a US president, found myself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. In the end, I threw a global family reunion with about 10,000 people at 40 events around the world!
The experience inspired my new book, It’s All Relative. It’s about my family. And yours. Because it’s the same family. The book is about the extraordinary changes happening in family research and DNA, and how they have an impact on politics, race relations, health and happiness.
I’m very excited to be here today and talk to all my relatives. AMA about genealogy, writing, living Biblically, or whatever else reddit has in mind.
PROOF: https://twitter.com/ajjacobs/status/929020353766215680
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