The Know-It-All : One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Paperback)

from brendajanefrank

Arnold Jacobs, Jr. chronicles his quest to be the "Smartest Person in the World" by reading every word of all 32 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with a smattering of autobiographical information to spice it up. For instance, we learn that Arnold Jacobs, Sr., author of 24 legal books, is ...

from phyllis01

A screamingly funny observance of an obsession. Jacobs sets out to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from beginning to end. If you enjoy good writing, or are one of those people who goes to the dictionary to look up a word and finds yourself, thirty minutes later, reading the dictionary, th...

from beelzebubba

The Know-It-All is a wonderful book that charts the progress through the author's life one year of reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica set. Aside from imparting some of the knowledge he is picking up from the books, he lets us into his life as well (a lot happens as he works his way throug...

from ronda73ca

Very cool book! This guy has a pretty witty way of telling is odd little story, and you actually learn somethings along the way. The only thing that sucks is that it makes you want to learn more about the little snippets he writes about and I have to force myself not to put down the book and get ...

from ronda73ca

Very cool book! This guy has a pretty witty way of telling is odd little story, and you actually learn somethings along the way. The only thing that sucks is that it makes you want to learn more about the little snippets he writes about and I have to force myself not to put down the book and get ...