Pre-Owned The History of the World According to Facebook (Paperback) by Wylie Overstreet

from Elliots89

A clever and funny way of describing historical events from the creation of the earth right up to the modern day. This book has some hilarious moments where as others, particularly the more obscure references may need a bit of research to fully understand the joke, overall though and fun, light b...

from satyridae

Yes, it's a one trick pony. But it made me guffaw any number of times. Overstreet has his finger on the pulse of ... well, us as hive-mind. Some of the pictures he chose to represent historical people/events were hilarious. I thought the inclusion of the odd modern bit into the historical timelin...

from sailorfigment

Just like reading a bunch of Facebook status updates, this book got annoying after a while and it was time to put it down and do something else. I'm not writing that as a bad thing, just that the author got the Facebook flavor. The book definitely requires a knowledge of history or the willingnes...