I was pretty close to finishing this one before I posted last week, and I was considering holding off until I could add this one as well, but I felt as though I just needed to write something - anything - to start getting back into a habit again. Anyhow, onto the quasi-book review.
The QI Book Of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Know your way around pub trivia? Think you have a reasonable grasp of general knowledge? Think again. This book lives up to its advertised 'everything you think you know is wrong' tag line. The book is essentially a collection of short articles, usually no more than a page or two each, that drill down into a question that you might believe that you know the answer to. The results are usually surprising, confusing and amusing; proof that the truth is always stranger than fiction.
Because of the short lengths of the articles, it was a great read at work - you could easily pick it up and put it back down after reading the answers to a few questions. However, the downside of the format was that it was easy to become overwhelmed by new information, and with no coherent 'story line' (topics seemed to flow into one another, but there was often not much connecting one article to the next) it didn't really encourage you to keep on reading, so making progress is slow.
Overall though, it was an interesting read. Topics covered pretty much everything from sports to nature to religion, science, history and more.
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