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pharmdad2007's review against another edition
2.0
First of all: "This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."
So, I really wanted to love this audiobook. After all, I love useless knowledge! But the plethora of grammatical foibles and overall poor syntax made it very hard to enjoy.
The content was pretty good, with some things I had never heard or even heard of. Even here though, there was an overall lack of consistency. Some of the interesting facts really were interesting, while others were just common items of common sense over-explained.
The narrator, bless his heart, gave it his all. He really tried to make the redundant and overly wordy sentences sound like they made sense. But the bottom line is that many of the facts, even the interesting ones, were spoiled by over-explaining, over-describing, and just plain corny wording.
One last complaint, though by far the most minor of them all: the lack of any organization. An animal fact followed by a word fact followed by a historical oddity followed by another animal (sort-of) fact. Still, this would have been entirely tolerable if it were not for the other problems.
So, I really wanted to love this audiobook. After all, I love useless knowledge! But the plethora of grammatical foibles and overall poor syntax made it very hard to enjoy.
The content was pretty good, with some things I had never heard or even heard of. Even here though, there was an overall lack of consistency. Some of the interesting facts really were interesting, while others were just common items of common sense over-explained.
The narrator, bless his heart, gave it his all. He really tried to make the redundant and overly wordy sentences sound like they made sense. But the bottom line is that many of the facts, even the interesting ones, were spoiled by over-explaining, over-describing, and just plain corny wording.
One last complaint, though by far the most minor of them all: the lack of any organization. An animal fact followed by a word fact followed by a historical oddity followed by another animal (sort-of) fact. Still, this would have been entirely tolerable if it were not for the other problems.
misskeesa's review against another edition
3.0
A fun book, but nothing to write home about. The only detail I actually remember from the book (even though I literally just now put it down! Ha!) was the name of the inventor of hawaiian pizza; Sam Panopoulos. I dislike hawaiian pizza enough to post about it on Facebook, which is probably why it's still in my mind. The rest was easy come, easy go, and I don't remember any of it.
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