The Guinea Pig Diaries, A. J. Jacobs
The Guinea Pig Diaries, A. J. Jacobs
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The Guinea Pig Diaries
My Life as an Experiment

Author: A. J. Jacobs

Narrator: A. J. Jacobs

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2009

Synopsis

A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.

One man. Ten extraordinary quests.

Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes undercover as a woman, lives by George Washington’s moral code, and impersonates a movie star. He practices "radical honesty," brushes his teeth with the world’s most rational toothpaste, and outsources every part of his life to India—including reading bedtime stories to his kids.

And in a new adventure, Jacobs undergoes scientific testing to determine how he can put his wife through these and other life-altering experiments—one of which involves public nudity.

Filled with humor and wisdom, My Life as an Experiment will immerse you in eye-opening situations and change the way you think about the big issues of our time—from love and work to national politics and breakfast cereal.

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lena on November 20, 2011

Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs is a practitioner of the stunt memoir. In Guinea Pig, he moves away from the year-long Bible and Britannica experiments he became known for to a series of month-long explorations on different topics. Among his experiments in this book are impersonating his ultra-hot nanny......more

Goodreads review by ♥Xeni♥ on September 07, 2011

I finished this book in record time. It was very easy to read, had a good pace (sometime too good of a pace... more details in some areas, please!) and was amusing while also being educational. I think I will try implementing some of Jacobs' ideas into my own life. Perhaps not to the extent that he d......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on July 28, 2010

I was planning on reading The Year of Living Biblically by the same author, but The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs was here and the other hasn't come in the mail yet. However, I'm glad I read this first because I LOVED it! I think we should all read it. It chronicles the author's life as he (1) p......more

Goodreads review by K on May 29, 2011

Okay, I don't want to oversell this book or anything. It didn't quite live up to its predecessor, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible. But life with A.J. Jacobs is always fun, at least if you're a reader and not his long-suffering wife J......more

Goodreads review by Abbyofgail on September 18, 2009

aj jacobs is the man. yeah yeah yeah he's kind of a tool, he recycles his jokes, whatever. anyone willing to spend a month checking his email with the TV, phone, and radio off is a hero in my book (see the chapter on unitasking). i must say i liked this one significantly less that his other two. the......more

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