More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman

More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Slightly funnier than the first one, The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order. I especially enjoy the political jokes. Just as the first one was too heavy on fake "hobo" trivia, this one is too heavy on molemen. Um-hm, yeah.

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The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read this because my husband owns the book but sadly I didn't think it was as funny as he did. This might be might fault, I think some of the jokes flew right over my head.

I like the fictional almanac concept. I always thought almanacs were really weird (though appealing in their weirdness) and Hodgman basically uses roasting the almanac as his humor vehicle here.

I especially liked the literature jokes, but the hobo section was extensive, as was the states section. The book relied a lot on tables and long lists (700 hobo names for example). Just wow.



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