Steve Wiegand
Forfatter af The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits (2008) — Forfatter — 570 eksemplarer
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent… af Erik Sass
This was like a 400 page history term paper from a couple of stoned teenagers, bristling with information accurate and otherwise, and told in a breathless, non-stop fashion that sucked all the air out of the room. Funny here and there, but a lot of history really doesn't lend itself to humor, or for that matter, quick summarization. The mind numbing repetitiveness of human aggression doesn't help either.
Audiobook version, read by Johnny Heller. I suspect this book would have been much better in a regular book format, rather than on audio. The boring and repetitive lists of events at each chapter (?) start are probably laid out visually in such a way as to allow you to refer back during the meat of each section. Aside from that, it was still a light and entertaining overview of historical events, presented in a way that I wish my dusty old history teachers could have taught it. I was even mightily impressed with the narrator's ability to make coherent sounding sentences using the tongue-twisting names of ancient civilizations and foreign languages. Until the book hit the 1940's and I had to endure hearing "nucular" spoken over and over again. I subtracted a star for that alone, and I'm afraid I had to abandon the audiobook while it was in the home stretch.… (mere)
The authors bill this book as an irreverent romp through civilization's best bits. For the most part the irrevencey does make for an entertaining look through history. On the other hand, the history of the world has often been down right horrifying , and on occasion, that irrevencey is perhaps a tad bit inappropriate.
Recent events made me more curious about us history and this book was helpful to understand a lot about US history.
The book itself is a story, nicely told from the early days of america till the very recent events, in brief, though it doesn't really stress enough on which events deserve more spot lights than the others but still it will help you understand a lot about america as culture and society and different events that shaped them.
The book itself is a story, nicely told from the early days of america till the very recent events, in brief, though it doesn't really stress enough on which events deserve more spot lights than the others but still it will help you understand a lot about america as culture and society and different events that shaped them.
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