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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
3 STARS
"A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "The Truth About Nakedness."
It is not as good as his previous book, but the call center story is so hilarious as is the online dating one.
"A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "The Truth About Nakedness."
It is not as good as his previous book, but the call center story is so hilarious as is the online dating one.
Although not all of the experiments are equally entertaining, as a whole this book is clever, unique, fun and super quick to read. I found the experiments devoted to outsourcing, radical honesty and George Washington to be the most thought provoking and captivating. Jacobs is a humorous, witty writer who amuses through his anecdotes and also provides readers with some very valuable information. He even manages to make the notes section in the back very funny. This book has interested me in reading about his more focused, larger-scale experiments.
funny
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reflective
This book felt like the author just threw it together to have another book. He is not as funny as he thinks he is.
Thoroughly fun, thoroughly enjoyable. A quick little read that delivers on some big laughs. Yes, it's gimmicky --even kitschy-- but still worth reading because you will forget about life for awhile .... and laugh, oh my how you will giggle and smirk and snort.
The experiments are really interesting overall, but A.J. Jacobs himself—including his thoughts about his vs. his wife’s role in his family, his nanny, etc. are sometimes fairly icky and misogynistic. This is my second A.J. Jacobs book and I don’t think I’ll be reading another.
This book was great and exceeded my expectations. It had many strengths and few weaknesses. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject matter.
Jacobs' latest foray into participatory journalism seeing him tackle a group of life-altering experiments rather than one big project. This makes some of them more entertaining than others--a month of radical honesty is more entertaining than a month of living rationally for example.