A.J.雅各布,美國著名作傢,著有《它的感覺》《兩個國王》《上帝和貓王》《美國不在綫》《骨摺的謊言》等。現任美國《ESQUIRE君子》雜誌高級主編,並擔任《紐約時報》《娛樂周刊》《魅力》《紐約》《紐約觀察傢》的特約撰稿人。目前,他和妻子茱莉一起住在紐約。
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33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but unconvinced. With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child. The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions, and a struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.
作者做的这个工程蛮浩大,大英百科,嗯,我想我不会喜欢这样去读它。在我看来,这种书还是更适合用来查阅。 他读他是为了让自己更聪明?可是我们怎么定义聪明呢?且不论能否记下这些东西,即使记下了,就聪明吗?那我们都比不过一张光盘。 全书象大英百科自己一样没有体系,按...
評分看不懂老师布置的readings,总是求助于wiki,到头来发现,seminar的时候大家都一样,老师一听就知道,集体去看wiki了,集体不看readings. 老师很郁闷。后果很严重。再来一个星期,继续wiki。 没有钱也没有时间去看大英百科,就先看看这个类文摘。的确很多好笑的东西,可是我看到...
評分是一本好书,但是对于翻译…… 我相信翻译者的英语水平,不然也不会成为“新东方学校ELITE精英英语学习中心主任”,但也不得不疑虑译者的细心程度、中文水平和人文知识。 duality,D项下的一个词条,翻译的是“对偶性”;E项下的一个注释,要求参看duality,这里的翻译成了“...
評分作者做的这个工程蛮浩大,大英百科,嗯,我想我不会喜欢这样去读它。在我看来,这种书还是更适合用来查阅。 他读他是为了让自己更聪明?可是我们怎么定义聪明呢?且不论能否记下这些东西,即使记下了,就聪明吗?那我们都比不过一张光盘。 全书象大英百科自己一样没有体系,按...
評分资深娱记看百科全书,自然能够顺当又搞笑地看成人类史娱乐版。可无论如何解构,穿插在野史秘闻间的,还有隐隐绰绰残存下的数字和过往,历史余烬未完,仍旧让人心悸。
詞匯句法不難,內容妙趣橫生,推薦作為第一本英文讀物
评分this too shall pass
评分第一本看完的英文閑書
评分休閑讀物,到後半截又沒瞭耐性。大概是那個時候我開始想起大作傢的話——新聞就是簡化,小說纔可能真實。我記住的零零碎碎裏最想信服的是ecclesiastics——make the most what you get.也想讀11版,博爾赫斯看到有意思的地方就停下來細讀的那一版。
评分第一本看完的英文閑書
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