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600bars's review
3.0
My second installment in the Big Book series. Like the conspiracy one, there are a lot of anecdotes being thrown at you and they can be difficult to absorb due to the sheer quantity and speed, even if you try to space them out. As you can tell, this book is about taking Ls. It has some sections that just read like 1000 ways to die or the Darwin Awards, which are impossible to remember because they are unverifiable and could be made up. I prefer the ones about real historical figures or events. I hate seeing people lose so it was generally not fun to read the stories about individuals, although I don’t have it in me to feel bad for Rudolph Hess. I felt more gleeful during the section about corporate Ls or inventions that never took off, like the new flavor of Coke. I had no idea there were so many failed aviation attempts/inventions. There were multiple instances of failed boatcars and boatplanes in here. I feel bad for Mili Vanilli. There was one section with small vignettes on embarrassing moments for politicians. One panel was about Joe Biden telling an anecdote in a speech in 1988 about his grandpa’s life in the coal mines that had been directly plagiarized from a British politician. The end of that chapter said that these hilarious moments in American politics will never end, and they were right!
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