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Complete World Knowledge #1-3
Complete World Knowledge Complete World Knowledge
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First published October 2, 2012
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John Hodgman
33 books1,130 followersBefore he went on television, JOHN HODGMAN was a humble writer, expert, and Former Professional Literary Agent living in New York City. In this capacity, he has served as the Humor Editor for the New York Times Magazine, Occasional Flight vs. Invisibility Consultant on “This American Life,” Advice Columnist for McSweeney’s, Comic Book Reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and a Freelance Journalist specializing in Food, Non-Wine Alcohol, “Battlestar Galactica,” and most other subjects.
This was enough of a career for any human.
But then he wrote a book of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE entitled THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE and was asked to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he continues to provide commentary as the show’s Resident Expert. Now, at 37, he has unexpectedly become a Famous Minor Television Personality, appearing as the “PC” in a series of television ads for Apple brand computers, and accepting guest roles as “the person wearing glasses” in a variety of films and TV shows, including “Battlestar Galactica,” a show he once wrote about as a journalist.
From time to time, he is asked to explain his professional life, and in particular, the effect of this dramatic and surprising change of fortune, and typically, he finds he cannot do it.
This was enough of a career for any human.
But then he wrote a book of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE entitled THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE and was asked to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he continues to provide commentary as the show’s Resident Expert. Now, at 37, he has unexpectedly become a Famous Minor Television Personality, appearing as the “PC” in a series of television ads for Apple brand computers, and accepting guest roles as “the person wearing glasses” in a variety of films and TV shows, including “Battlestar Galactica,” a show he once wrote about as a journalist.
From time to time, he is asked to explain his professional life, and in particular, the effect of this dramatic and surprising change of fortune, and typically, he finds he cannot do it.
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February 19, 2017
There is so much wonderful, specific insanity in these books. If you love, for example, seasons four through eight of The Simpsons and 30 Rock, this will make you laugh until you scream.
February 15, 2013
Like most people who will pick up this trilogy, I am a big fan of Hodgman's appearances on the Daily Show. His skits are funny, clever and witty.
The Hodgeman Boxed set is a collection of all three of Hodgman's fake trivia books on world knowledge. A whopping 1000+ pages. Unfortunately, 100 pages in I realized that I had made a terrible terrible mistake.
Not only is the book boring, unimaginative, and downright unfunny, but it's so PACKED with nonsense that it makes it incredibly tiresome and difficult to pay attention to his pointless ramblings. I expected something a little more intellectual from Hodgman. Even at the top of every page is a "fact" on each day of the year with completely breaks the continuity. Also, making such blatant fun of hobos is offensive, and dedicating such long chapters to boring subjects such as "mole men" and "ragnarok" only makes things worse.
So, why did I choose to finish the remaining 900+ pages? Because the only thing more worthless than this book is my sense of priorities. Shame on me.
The point is that Neil Gaiman was right -- if you see Hodgman on the street, kill him.
The Hodgeman Boxed set is a collection of all three of Hodgman's fake trivia books on world knowledge. A whopping 1000+ pages. Unfortunately, 100 pages in I realized that I had made a terrible terrible mistake.
Not only is the book boring, unimaginative, and downright unfunny, but it's so PACKED with nonsense that it makes it incredibly tiresome and difficult to pay attention to his pointless ramblings. I expected something a little more intellectual from Hodgman. Even at the top of every page is a "fact" on each day of the year with completely breaks the continuity. Also, making such blatant fun of hobos is offensive, and dedicating such long chapters to boring subjects such as "mole men" and "ragnarok" only makes things worse.
So, why did I choose to finish the remaining 900+ pages? Because the only thing more worthless than this book is my sense of priorities. Shame on me.
The point is that Neil Gaiman was right -- if you see Hodgman on the street, kill him.
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