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The Pocket Book of General Ignorance
by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
A handy paperback version of the number-one bestseller, complete with the long-awaited index. Translated into 23 languages, it has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide.
Eye-watering, eyebrow-raising, terrific... moving slightly faster than your brain does, so that you haven't quite absorbed the full import of one blissful item of trivial information before two or three more come along. Such fine and creative research genuinely deserves to be captured in print.
Marcus Berkmann, The Daily Mail
Trivia books, like any kind of mental or physical addiction, are both irresistible and unsatisfying. By the standards of the genre, this one has something approaching the force of revelation. Answering silly questions suddenly seems less important than taking the trouble to ask a few.
The Melbourne Age
To impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions.
The Financial Times
Lloyd & Mitchinson serve up diverting tidbits in a spry manner, as they battle an ignorance apparently afflicting us all.
Michael Upchrch, Seattle Times
You too can banish social awkwardness by having its endless count of facts and factoids at the ready. Or you could just read it and keep what you've learned to yourself.
Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News