The Know-It-All
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
(Sprache: Englisch)
Es ist hart und es verlangt einem Mann alles ab. A.J. Jacobs hat sich trotzdem nicht abschrecken lassen und die Encyclopaedia Britannica gelesen. Alle 33.000 Seiten des größten Nachschlagewerkes der Welt! Alle 65.000 Kapitel mit dem gebündelten Wissen der...
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Es ist hart und es verlangt einem Mann alles ab. A.J. Jacobs hat sich trotzdem nicht abschrecken lassen und die Encyclopaedia Britannica gelesen. Alle 33.000 Seiten des größten Nachschlagewerkes der Welt! Alle 65.000 Kapitel mit dem gebündelten Wissen der Menschheit. So schön schräg und genial wie die Idee, ist auch Jacobs Rückblick auf die Tour-de-force. In diesem Buch schildert er seine Strapazen, die kuriosesten Leseerlebnisse und die Auswirkungen auf sein Privatleben. »...a working definition of what it means to be smart.« (The New York Times)
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Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.33,000 PAGES
44 MILLION WORDS
10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
1 OBSESSED MANTo fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but unconvinced.With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child.The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions, and a struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.
Autoren-Porträt von A. J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs is the author of Thanks a Thousand, It's All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com and follow him on Twitter @ajjacobs.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: A. J. Jacobs
- 2005, 400 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 3,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
- ISBN-10: 0743250621
- ISBN-13: 9780743250627
Sprache:
Englisch
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