The Book of General Ignorance | John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

The Book of General Ignorance | John Mitchinson, John Lloyd | Great Book for Trivia Lovers

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	The Book of General Ignorance John Mitchinson, John Lloyd Harmony, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Book of General Ignorance

This was for my 12-year-old daughter for Christmas. It looks great and she's been tickled with everything contained within it. I think this was a great deal!

Great Book for Trivia Lovers

I purchased this book for my son who is a trivia nut. He thoroughly enjoyed the information that was shared in the book. The book was designed to correct trivia that has misinformed people and to provide them with the actual correct answers. It quickly became a book for the family as my son kept providing us with surprising facts that he kept discovering. We were all amazed at how misinformed we were!! I recommend it for anyone who is amazed by trivia.

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Great book for trivia lovers

I bought this for my 17-yr.old son who is a real lover of nuggets of knowledge. He said it was a perfect Christmas gift. It's a great coffee table book in the non-traditional sense; you can pick up and begin reading anywhere on any of the interesting and surprising questions. The writing is funny, informative, and the book tempts you to read "just one more". A great book for those who like obscure and not-so-obscure trivia.

Well researched and written but needs a table of content on the Kindle Edition

This is a fun book with a large amount of trivia written in an easy to digress way. The book's focus is on trying to bust myths, like Macro Polo supposed travels, or whether feminists actually burned their bras. However, a lot of sections digress into interesting and sometimes lengthy run-on discussions of sub-topics, for example, when discussing diamonds, the author goes on to say that the largest diamond ever discovered is above Australia light years away (it's actually a collapsed star made of crystallized carbon, i.e. diamond). This is all done in a humorous way, and in my minds eye, I imagine it's always Stephen Fry speaking for some reason!

I would have given this book 4 stars except that in the Kindle Edition there does not appear to be a Contents page so I deducted one star. Without a Contents Page, I couldn't dive into it randomly or scan for topics of interest. I think that the real book is written to do just that and probably purposely doesn't have a table of contents, but on the Kindle, where every page turn takes a second or two, you can't flick through the book and start reading at random. Instead, I've been plowing through it serially, which is not bad, but I've no idea what other topics might be coming up. Technically, I could type in a random "location" (what the Kindle uses for page numbers) but that's far too techie for me.

Therefore, my recommendation to Amazon, and e-book writers everywhere is, no matter what the "real" book does, include a table of contents. Alternatively, the Kindle should be able to auto-generate one.

I would have given this book 4 stars except that in the Kindle Edition there does not appear to be a Contents page so I deducted one star. Without a Contents Page, I couldn't dive into it randomly or scan for topics of interest. I think that the real book is written to do just that and probably purposely doesn't have a table of contents, but on the Kindle, where every page turn takes a second or two, you can't flick through the book and start reading at random. Instead, I've been ploughing through it serially, which is not bad, but I've no idea what other topics might be coming up. Technically, I could type in a random "location" (what the Kindle uses for page numbers) but that's far too techie for me.

Therefore, my recommendation to Amazon, and ebook writers everywhere is, no matter what the "real" book does, include a table of contents. Alternatively, the Kindle should be able to auto-generate one.

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Not Ignorant

This book is very interesting. It gives a lot of little known facts in a humorous and enjoyable manner. I bought it for my daughter. She teaches Science. She enjoyed it so much; she loaned it to me to read.

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