Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9781594482229
ISBN: 1594482225
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-09-05
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Studio: Riverhead Trade

Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously)-a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom-all of it completely unresearched, completely undocumented and (presumably) completely untrue, fabricated by the illuminating, prodigious imagination of John Hodgman, certifiable genius.

Customer Rating:
Summary: bizarre but funny
Comment: Having written a magazine review of John Hodgman's "More Information Than You Require," I bought this because, after all, the two books are really one book (check the page numbering). It's a loony kind of book but a lot of fun to read. (Beware of reading it in public if you don't want strangers to see you giggle.)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Basically the same stuff, some of it amusing and most not, contained in his second book.
Comment: John Hodgman appears to be a genuinely funny man during his appearances on "The Daily Show" with the sainted Jon Stewart.

Then why is this book so disappointing? (I confess I only read the first 60 or so pages before punting)

Because if you've read "More Information Than You Require", you've gotten all the available juice out of this piece of fruit. Author Hodgman simply does not deviate: the first book is the same as the second.

I enjoyed "More Information Than You Require", as you can see by my review, though it certainly got tired about the time that Hodgman listed, over several pages, potential names of something or other. Talk about needing an editor of funny business, John.

Not recommended unless you have plenty of free time. And even then......

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Hodge is a genius.
Comment: John Hodgman is a man among boys. He is truly a gift to be enjoyed again and again.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Incomprehensible Babble
Comment: Don't buy this book. It alternates with boring, boring self absorbed descriptions of the author's life followed by incomprehensive babble that appears to be generated by a person with scrambled eggs for brains. If you like to read incomprehensible nonsense, you'll like this book.

Oh, and it is not funny except that it is a joke that this book was actually published.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Illinois Obama
Comment: It is a strange creativity to compose a list of 700 hobo names. Number 424, Illinois Obama, demonstrates genius.

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