What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

4.14 AVERAGE

bewilderness's review against another edition

5.0
I LOVE this. Just thinking about reading it makes me smile and want to go pick it up and read it again. Crazy scientific Q&A that is both easy to understand and a delight to read. Randall Munroe has a real gift for intelligent, comedic writing, and his stick people somehow have more character than more realistic drawings.

Up there with Notes From a Big Country by Bill Bryson as the funniest books I have ever read. Literally laugh out loud funny.

naomi_j's review against another edition

3.0
funny slow-paced

beckylikesbooks's review against another edition

4.0
funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
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jaymaboko's review against another edition

5.0
Very smart!
Found it to be quite a fascinating read...

Where do people come up with some of these questions though? haha

kmrobbins's review against another edition

5.0
Science + humor. Of course I love it.

evayz01's review against another edition

4.0
If this were a modeling homework problem, Munroe'd get full marks. However, sometimes the humor was a little too snarky for me, and I'm not sure I walked away from this book with anything beyond a reminder of how to state modeling assumptions and a slightly stretched imagination.

diomuller's review against another edition

4.0
Funny. Educative. Weird. All of those adjectives work well with this book: the author explains what would happen on many weird scenarios, all based on existing science - even with references and citing works on the area. Very, very funny and informative book, well worth reading.
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debralynn's review against another edition

2.0
I wasn’t smart enough for this book. I thought possibly the engineers in my book club would be, but they agreed, this book went into far too much detail and left us confused. If he had just answered each question without making it absurd, it could have been good. Couldn’t even finish.
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andyber's review against another edition

4.0
If you like xkcd.com you'll love this. Several clever sections, I especially liked the one about what it would be like if you had a periodic table of the elements - the actual elements in block format.

i_need_new_books's review against another edition

4.0
funny informative fast-paced