Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask

On the whole, I'd say about 50% of this book was fairly interesting. Most of the information contained was stuff I already knew... though I have to admit there were much better explinations than what I could have come up with. I read it in about an hour, it would really make better bathroom material......more

Found this buried in a stack of my unread books with a bargain sticker on it. It is a series of questions, gathered by subject, such as "What is the Reformation?" "What is a pocket veto?" "What is a bon mot?" I could divide them into the categories, Yes, I know that, Well, I sort of know that but I......more

This would be one of those in between ratings, so like 3 1/2 or 3 3/4. It's good and I liked it more than liked it and less than really liked it. Got it as a yule gift. Was reading it to get it out of the house. And most of the stuff I knew, but was a nice reminder. Like I knew most of the differenc......more

I will give this book two reviews: one for the contents, everything past the copyright page, and another for the parts produced by the marketing department, such as the covers and everything through the copyright page. The book is really excellent and explaining any number of things most of us know a......more

The title should probably be changed to “Everything You Pretended to Know in 1996...” Many of the answers in this book are extremely dated and are more interesting as a time capsule representing the state of the world, technology, and knowledge when it was written. For example, “what is the informat......more