[Citation Needed] 2: The Needening: More of The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing

[Citation Needed] #2

by Conor Lastowka, Josh Fruhlinger

After [Citation Needed] there must come...The Needening!

Are you curious whether the color of your unibrow is affected by dying your hair? In search of information about how to improve your Batusi moves? Want to know which beverage Janis Joplin is mediumly associated with? Really? What the hell is wrong with you?

Well, if you must seek out these answers, there’s only one source worth turning to. No, not your grandfather. He served in World War II. Do not ask him questions about Sonic The Hedgehog’s genitals. We’re talking about Wikipedia!

[Citation Needed] 2: The Needening contains over 200 more examples of “so bad it’s good” Wikipedia writing, with original commentary for each entry by authors Conor Lastowka & Josh Fruhlinger, plus a foreword by Mike Nelson of RiffTrax and MST3K! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you may even learn something that probably isn’t true.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

222 pages, ebook

First published May 31, 2013

About the author

Conor Lastowka has written two comedy novels, The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe and Gone Whalin'. He's also co-authored two anthologies of terrible Wikipedia writing, [Citation Needed] Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

He works as a Senior Writer-Producer at RiffTrax.com.

He co-hosts the podcast book club "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back" with Mike Nelson.

He lives in Burlington, VT with his wife Lauren and can often be found performing at Vermont Comedy Club.

Find him on twitter @clastowka and instagram @conorlastowka

Reviews

[Troy Blackford · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first one and I knew immediately I wanted to read this one as well. So many laughs for 99 cents. It's really shocking how many ridiculous things people have written on Wikipedia, and having it all collected in one place with such funny commentaries is really a no brainer. A small yet fun-packed book of laughs and headscratchers.

[Jeffrey Cobia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny as hell and totally (barely) worth all the money ($0.99) I paid for it. And I definitely did not just buy it because I feel guilty that I read comics curmudgeon everyday but never donate because I don't want uncle lumpy to know where I live.

[Conor Lastowka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely one of the top two books in the [Citation Needed] series. In all seriousness, I think this one is funnier than our first one. Plus, Mike's foreword is very funny too.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unreadably bad.

[Jdetrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, if slight, book. Very quick read and worth the time to do so.

[Miss Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as funny as the first one

This one was not quite as funny as the first book, but it still has quite a few hilarious parts.

[Nisha Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Way better than the first one

If something isn't broken, why fix it?

Lastowka and Fruhlinger certainly seem to abide by this as this book follows the same route as its predecessor. Yet, it's ultimately much funnier than the first one and you can tell that there's passion for this project and all the bad editing that Wikipedia can provide.