The Areas of My Expertise

from Mr.Durick

I don't suppose I need to add a review, but I want to urge this smart wordplay along. An author could have fun writing a book like this, and I hope that Hodgman did. It was fun to read; I read it in sequence on two evenings. The dead pan inventiveness kept it rolling for me and will get me to buy...

from CarrieWuj

This is hilarious and unlike anything I have read. It is fictitious non-fiction and major props to John Hodgman for making up everything -- and including a few kernels of truth, which are really hard to find. By billing this as an almanac he has given himself the perfect platform to include a bun...

from Lexicographer

I don't usually pick up books of humour, because I often don't find them funny. I tend more toward clever in print than I do in other media. But Daily Show expert Hodgman has such a brilliantly skewed way of seeing things, that I couldn't resist. It didn't all work for me, but the majority of it ...

from librarybrandy

This compendium of invented facts is funny, mostly, though a little wearing on the nerves. Hodgman reads in his usual deadpan, which I enjoy, and his reading is musically punctuated by the book's Official Troubadour, Jonathan Coulton. I am glad to report that Hodgman's reading skips over the list...

from Juva

A very humorous and practical collection of almost-true trivia that will brighten your commute and fill your social circle with misinformation. From the U.S. states to hobos, to ninjas, to lobsters, no important topic is omitted. This truly is a book of complete world knowledge that will give you...