The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs
Okay, this book was awesome. Aside from having a great title, it was so so funny and interesting! Basically, this guy reads the entire Encylopaedia Britanica. (Any How I Met Your Mother fans out there? Encyclopaedia?) So every chapter is a letter and in he writes about funny or interesting entries from the encyclopedia and from his life (he tries to: join Mensa, become a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, have a baby, and use interesting encylopedia facts to impress people) . I would totally recommend this book for anyone - in fact some people might be getting it for Christmas. Hopefully not people that read this book though.
This is a library book, and some previous reader went through the book and corrected all the grammer and punctuation errors in the book (of which there were a suprising amount) and underlined in an ironic way, a line in the book about the importance of editing. Made the book a tiny bit funnier, but it was also a little annoying.
I have another book by this same guy that I am really looking forward to, where he tries to follow EVERY rule in the bible for a year. Sounds hysterical!
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