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The Know-It-All - One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Paperback, New ed)
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The Know-It-All - One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Paperback, New ed)
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List price R395
Loot Price R321
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You Save R74 (19%)
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On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with
yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a
whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in
the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a
job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue
about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound
familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at
Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of
celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time.
While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend,
Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages
of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody
Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through
adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.
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