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Financial Times
"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)."
--This text refers to the
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Daily Mail
"Eye-watering, eyebrow-raising, terrific . . . moving slightly faster than your brain does, so that you haven't quite absorbed the full import of one blissful item of trivial information before two or three more come along. Such fine and creative research genuinely deserves to be captured in print."
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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you thought you knew everything, think again :P
After reading this book I know about 100 times more than I did before.
This book is filled with lots of little questions which you think you know the answer to - some of the answers are just to obvious, or so it would seem. One of the joys about reading it is having the ability to just pick the book up and open on any page and you'll be amazed by one fact or another
I won't give away any of the secrets within the book, but whether you are a fan of QI, whether you're not - it's a great book and well worth reading.
After reading this book I know about 100 times more than I did before.
This book is filled with lots of little questions which you think you know the answer to - some of the answers are just to obvious, or so it would seem. One of the joys about reading it is having the ability to just pick the book up and open on any page and you'll be amazed by one fact or another
I won't give away any of the secrets within the book, but whether you are a fan of QI, whether you're not - it's a great book and well worth reading.
248 of 255 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read the Book of General Ignorance over the week-end. Although I have hundreds of trivia books they all pale into insignificance against this brilliant work which I shall genuinely enjoy forever.
Trivia books leave you feeling you're lacking something. There's something frustrating about a three line `fact' which is unsubstantiated and unexplained.
The Book of General Ignorance is a completely different animal, it awakens curiosity, is hilariously written, illuminating and leaves you desperate to fascinate your friends and family with your newly discovered wonders of the world around us. For once you can explain the background to your discovery and WHY it is so.
A fantastic read, highly recommended.
Trivia books leave you feeling you're lacking something. There's something frustrating about a three line `fact' which is unsubstantiated and unexplained.
The Book of General Ignorance is a completely different animal, it awakens curiosity, is hilariously written, illuminating and leaves you desperate to fascinate your friends and family with your newly discovered wonders of the world around us. For once you can explain the background to your discovery and WHY it is so.
A fantastic read, highly recommended.
121 of 127 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The books is a spin off from the enormously successful BBC2 series QI. If you love the programme you will certainly love the book. If you have never seen the programme, you will probably still love the book.
For those people who enjoy trivia and most people do, myself included, this is a great book to sit down and relax with by the fireside on a cold winter's night. It takes commonly held beliefs and runs them full pelt through the shredder (was Santa Claus really Turkish).
The book is written in a witty way, and the great thing is that armed with all the new facts you now know, you could if you so desired win a few quid in bets and get the price of the book back. Now there's a thought.
For those people who enjoy trivia and most people do, myself included, this is a great book to sit down and relax with by the fireside on a cold winter's night. It takes commonly held beliefs and runs them full pelt through the shredder (was Santa Claus really Turkish).
The book is written in a witty way, and the great thing is that armed with all the new facts you now know, you could if you so desired win a few quid in bets and get the price of the book back. Now there's a thought.
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Converstation starter...
Great little book with small facts you can use to impress people. Doesn't need to be read in one go either, more of a dip in/dip out book.
Published 1 month ago by Kylie Daws
A great knowledgeable book. It's both funny and formal.
It's a great read filled with various misconceptions, and myths that we all believe are true, but whether funnily or formally, are dispelled here. Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Walton
QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance
Bought as a gift that was greatly received, very amusing and learnt lots of useless facts from it to get any conversation started!
Published 4 months ago by Keith Grout
Must read as it's quite interesting
Simply put this book will teach you of some things you probably thought you knew but didn't. The author mentioned in the preface that he was being frequently accused of knowing too... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Maksim S.
The wonderful knowledge book's review
If you want to seek for the book which can enlighten you in all the misconceptions, mistakes in the general things which we have learned or known in our daily life, this book is... Read more
Published 13 months ago by lagouge
Too many very sloppy sentence manglings
I'm not talking about mere typos here, but quite a few places where sentences have just been chopped up and randomly sorted, so one sentence will break off, perhaps mid word,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Joe
Good book sloppily interpreted to Kindle.
This is a very interesting book in terms of it's content, but the Kindle edition is ruined a little by the amount of mistakes in terms of grammar, spelling and seemingly random... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. M. Rubringer
Good, but ...
As a life-long QI fan, I bought the Kindle version of this book to go on my new toy. The content is generally very good but there are a few typographical errors that make some... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Colin Main
a lot of useless information
personally i've read maybe the first 15 pages and got soooo bored. ok, you get surprised occasionally, but who cares in "what type of nut has been mascarading as a seed? Read more
Published 17 months ago by BD
Mistakes aplenty
I was disappointed with this eBook because there are so many mistakes in it. For example at 2128 "the" is spelled "ohe", in fact that page is full of that kind of mistake. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Christopher D. Hall
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