Author: A. J. Jacobs
Translator: Myeong-nam Kim
Publisher: Gimmyoungsa
Hardcover | 663 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Imagine, the original Berserkers were "savage Norse soldiers" of the
Middle Ages who went into battle stark naked! Or consider the Etruscan
habit of writing in "boustrophedon style." Intrigued? Well, either
hunker down with your own Encyclopaedia Britannica, or buy Esquire
editor Jacobs's memoir of the year he spent reading all 32 volumes of
the 2002 edition -- that's 33,000 pages with some 44 million words.
Jacobs set out on this delightfully eccentric endeavor attempting to
become the "smartest person in the world," although he agrees smart
doesn't mean wise. Apart from the sheer pleasure of scaling a major
intellectual mountain, Jacobs figured reading the encyclopedia from
beginning to end would fill some gaps in his formal education and
greatly increase his "quirkiness factor." Reading alphabetically through
whole topics he never knew existed meant he'd accumulate huge quantities
of trivia to insert into conversations with unsuspecting victims. As his
wife shunned him and cocktail party guests edged away, Jacobs started
testing his knowledge in a hilarious series of humiliating adventures:
hobnobbing at Mensa meetings, shuffling off to chess houses, trying out
for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, visiting his old prep
school, even competing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Indeed, one of
the book's strongest parts is its laugh-out-loud humor. Jacobs's ability
to juxtapose his quirky, sardonic wit with oddball trivia make this one
of the season's most unusual books. --From Publishers Weekly
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