This book is very clever which I say without irony. I laughed, out loud, a lot. It's also complete nonsense, every word, and to make any sense of it, you need to read every word. My reading time is limited so I don't have time for every single word. I skim for the gist of set-ups and descriptions and read each word of important parts. But for me to "get" THIS silliness (and I love silliness), I need to read every word. And there are a lot of words. The audio version will probably suit me better. As I said in my comment earlier, my two year old became obsessed with John Hodgman. It must be the sound/cadence of his voice, which my husband described as professorial. I am a voice junky, so it's no surprise that M. is, too. We listened to much of this book together, in the car, on the way to/from daycare. I hope he didn't understand too much of it. This book is so ridiculous and out there (in a very good way), I wasn't even sure how to do a star rating. I listened to the audiobook, which I suspect is very different from the printed book. Guest stars who he (entertainingly) rambles on with, etc. And of course, the whole Ragnarok countdown calendar at the end, which is an audio bonus. Well, if you know John Hodgman's work, you pretty much know what you're getting yourself into. This book was a blast.
Do You like book That Is All (2011)?
My favorite sign of the apocalypse is that Stephen King writes 700 more pages to The Stand.
—rock_love_15
My favorite of the three book compendium of all human knowledge.
—fat
The best of the trilogy. Laugh out loud nerdy humor.
—vick
