Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, (Hardcover)

from TheDivineOomba

This is both a great book, and a frustrating book. The highly detailed illustrations were wonderful, the stick figure comments were as always, lots of fun. But - its frustrating. For example, as someone who has a good idea of how a cell works, I couldn't figure out just what everything was! But, ...

from m_k_m

I didn't devour this like I did What If? - in fact if the date started on Goodreads is anything to go by, it took me just over a year to read. But I've enjoyed dipping in and out of this over the last 12 months; the simplification of language does get a bit much if you push on through too many pa...

from twhite13

This was really fun to read. It worked best when I had a working knowledge of the thing he was explaining so I could appreciate the cleverly simplified word choice and humor, but even on things I didn't understand, Munroe's explanations were fun. Is it a thorough explanation of the science behind...

from Pferdina

Fun drawings of everyday objects and other types of things, with xkcd-style explanations written using the "ten hundred" most common English words. No, you're not going to learn a lot of new stuff, but the explanations are humorous.

from DetailMuse

I respect Munroe's premise here: explore complicated things (from science to machines) using only drawings and a thousand (“ten hundred”) common words. He doesn't explain much, he mostly labels the parts (i.e. it's more anatomy than physiology). And via that premise, the labels are never the actu...