Me? I thought it's the best Audible book I've listened to in a long time. Jacobs (Author), Greg Pliska (Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition 277 ratings Editors' pick Best Nonfiction See all formats and editions Kindle 4. It was certainly informative as well as entertaining. Jacobs The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Kindle Edition by A.J. Jacobs treatment is a little irreverent at the beginning, but he seems to genuinely learn from his experiment by the end. For his first book The Know-It-All: One Man’s Quest to Become the Smartest Person In the. Review: AJ Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment User Review - Nicki - Goodreads. The Know-It-All isn't meant to be taken seriously, so people who are expecting it to distill all of human knowledge into a handy bite-sized chunk are going to be disappointed. Jacobs has had an intuitive understanding of this concept since the earliest days of his career. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes familywhere it begins and how far it goesand attempts to untangle the true meaning of the Family of Humankind. Personally, I enjoyed the descriptions of his relationships with his father and his brother-in-law, and I thought the tone of his humour was perfectly pitched. New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Yes, of course he's somewhat self-obsessed - but that's kind of the point: he's writing a book about a personal endeavour, and he's populating it with anecdotes about himself and characters in his life. Expecting to get a condensed version of the encyclopaedia is ridiculous - this book is about READING the encyclopaedia, not just abridging the interesting facts. In fact, a Bryson travel book is the closest comparison I can think of to The Know-It-All, and that's high praise. AJ Jacobs' quest for knowledge may be contrived for the purposes of writing a book, but so what? Bill Bryson's journeys are undertaken with the same goal in mind, after all. Within the first minutes of The Know-It-All, I was laughing out loud, and probably looking like an idiot to the drivers of the cars around me.

The know it all by aj jacobs