- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition edition (3 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230712207
- ISBN-13: 978-0230712201
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 466,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Stephen Fry
'I found myself fascinated and somewhat dizzy. Most impressive'
John Mitchinson, co-author of QI: The Book of General Ignorance
'The book that nails that odd, slightly unnerving feeling that everything really is connected'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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the way forward,
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This review is from: Joined-Up Thinking: How everything connects to everything else: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else (Hardcover)
Just when I was getting bored with the miscellany's and such - this is a brilliantly inventive and fun book which traces the connections from one curious piece of information to another. Each "round" reads like a curious and adventurous essay. I picked this up because of the quotes from the "QI" bunch and I can see why they were so enthusiastic about it. Great stuff. And hoping for volume II.
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A Lucky Find,
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This review is from: Joined-Up Thinking: How everything connects to everything else: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else (Hardcover)
This is a really enjoyable and interesting book. Each chapter (round?) is a complete circle of connected facts, working from a starting point through a barn-full of weird and wonderful miscellanea, and ending up back where it started. For example, chapter 22 starts with Torchwood and Doctor Who and travels via the Star Wars (both George Lucas and Ronnie Reagan versions), The Flintstones and Scottish band "The Proclaimers", Hallmark Cards, Frankincense, and ending up back with Torchwood. If you love trivia (as I do) or are riveted to each episode of QI (as I am), then you will enjoy this journey that tries to draw lines connecting all the quirky facts to each other.
Thoughtfully, Stevyn Colgan has even provided a "joined-up index" that will let you find individual strange facts later, which will surely make this the oddest reference book on your shelves? Colgan is obviously deeply disturbed, and I commend him for it.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic Journey through factual links,
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This review is from: Joined-Up Thinking: How everything connects to everything else: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else (Hardcover)
Great book. I really enjoyed this one. I challenge anyone not to read it in one sitting!!
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