The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (repost)
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World By A. J. Jacobs
Publisher: Si mon & Schu ster 2004 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0743250605 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Si mon & Schu ster 2004 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0743250605 | PDF | 2 MB
Imagine, the original Berserkers were "savage Norse soldiers" of the Middle Ages who went into battle stark naked! Or consider the Etruscan habit of writing in "boustrophedon style." Intrigued? Well, either hunker down with your own Encyclopædia Britannica, or buy Esquire editor Jacobs's memoir of the year he spent reading all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition—that's 33,000 pages with some 44 million words. Jacobs set out on this delightfully eccentric endeavor attempting to become the "smartest person in the world," although he agrees smart doesn't mean wise.