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angus_mckeogh's review
3.0
Pretty good stuff. Solid, serious answers of a sort; however, some of the questions were curiously intriguing while others were pure nonsense, which shifted the explanations into silliness. So certainly a good read but nothing that should be placed on anyone’s mandatory list.
daniellecaskinett's review
funny
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.0
I would love to attend a dinner party with this guy.
frenchfrybri's review
3.0
this is cool, but it’s more of a flip through and find what’s interesting to you than read all the way through kind of book
nickedkins's review
4.0
Great idea for a book (an ex-physicist tries to solve absurd hypothetical questions with back-of-the-envelope calculations). Lots of the answers were surprising, and you're introduced to a lot of concepts that you wouldn't have come across otherwise.
The tone of the writing conveys curiosity and play and it's charming 95% of the time. The other 5% lapses into "haha I'm such a nerd, I care about minutiae and I like lasers," which is really annoying, so one star off for that.
The tone of the writing conveys curiosity and play and it's charming 95% of the time. The other 5% lapses into "haha I'm such a nerd, I care about minutiae and I like lasers," which is really annoying, so one star off for that.