A.J.雅各布,美国著名作家,著有《它的感觉》《两个国王》《上帝和猫王》《美国不在线》《骨折的谎言》等。现任美国《ESQUIRE君子》杂志高级主编,并担任《纽约时报》《娱乐周刊》《魅力》《纽约》《纽约观察家》的特约撰稿人。目前,他和妻子茱莉一起住在纽约。
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33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN 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. To 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.
作者做的这个工程蛮浩大,大英百科,嗯,我想我不会喜欢这样去读它。在我看来,这种书还是更适合用来查阅。 他读他是为了让自己更聪明?可是我们怎么定义聪明呢?且不论能否记下这些东西,即使记下了,就聪明吗?那我们都比不过一张光盘。 全书象大英百科自己一样没有体系,按...
评分是一本好书,但是对于翻译…… 我相信翻译者的英语水平,不然也不会成为“新东方学校ELITE精英英语学习中心主任”,但也不得不疑虑译者的细心程度、中文水平和人文知识。 duality,D项下的一个词条,翻译的是“对偶性”;E项下的一个注释,要求参看duality,这里的翻译成了“...
评分首先顺从个人趣味讲一下大概内容吧。本书按照由A到Z的顺序将部分词条抽出,夹杂了一些作者的个人感想。(没有剧情的书剧透真没意思╮(╯_╰)╭) 作者贾各由于智力上的深深挫败感,从而产生通过读大英百科来增加智商的想法。尽管该举动受到了各种可以想见的打击,但是贾各仍然...
评分首先申明,我读书绝对是凑热闹的那种,寝室里有一本,大家都在看,这个下午悄悄从敏敏案头拿下来,妄图消磨一整个下午,结果,我睡着了。好吧,我承认我不该在中午之后在阳台亮的发晕的时候读,我也承认我更不该在脑袋跟着晕的时候又卧床看啦(当然,我最后确实也实现了我的...
读完大英百科全书,厉害啊
评分本来读完就可以装逼掉书袋的小百科全书读了三分之一放在教室里然后就被人拿走了...
评分从这本书里我知道了:作者是Esquire的主编;在Brown混过4年;作者和老婆曾经因为结婚多年而未果求败各路神佛;作者去过Britannica的编辑部,发现那些编辑也不是无所不通晓的。。。A tabloidy version of <Circles>~
评分作为流行文化的中毒者,作者决定通读大英百科全书来返璞归真提升自我。这本书里有他在百科全书里读到的各种有趣词条,配上流行作家一贯风格的吐槽,也穿插了些自己日常生活的片段,自恋与自嘲都很坦诚。读前半本时特别喜欢这种文风,但是后半本有点审美疲劳了。
评分读了五分之一。包括结尾。用很聪明的方式讲了很多喷饭的百科段子。好!
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