I Used to Know That
Stuff You Forgot from School
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Narrated by:
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Joan Walker
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By:
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Caroline Taggart
About this listen
Can you remember how photosynthesis works? Well, what about quadratic equations? Or the names of all the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice? How about Henry VIII’s wives, conjunctions, inertia, the continents of the world and the Seven Deadly Sins? And what on earth is the point of pi? Let’s face it, there are an awful lot of half-remembered things floating around in our heads.
This witty and very insightful book gathers together the facts, fiction, figures, and formulae we all learnt at school, and is guaranteed to have you exclaiming, ‘I used to know that!’
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- Former Amazonfan
- 26-08-20
Trust the BBC to tell you
that the Netherlands are situated in Asia.
The BBC, not what it used to be.
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- Caroline
- 04-05-17
Compact and enjoyable
Loved the narrator's voice and thought the book factual. One to listen to in the background in the hope it subconsciously goes in.
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- Andrew Worsley
- 23-05-19
Very useful
Overall, some very good top-line content. Very well narrated by Joan. Certainly met my expectations!
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- Jay Dermott
- 27-07-15
Comedy of Errors!
Well told, Joan has an engaging voice and rose to the task of narrating what often turned out to be a list of lists in an exemplary way. However, this didn't work anything like as well as Caroline's "A Classical Education" did. Some of the facts were just plain wrong. The Capital of the Netherlands is certainly Amsterdam but it definitely isn't in Asia!
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- Rick Da-Ruler
- 01-12-21
its was alright
it wasnt a bad book I really liked to begin with then it told me stuff that I still know I guess it was an OK read
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- A. Murray
- 16-03-22
Not for audible
The book, in paper format, might be useful as a compendium or the well-known encyclopaedia, however as an audible format it is just ludicrous with so many facts and figures to remember and to commit to memory. The performance, despite the dryness of the book, was outstanding.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Frank
- 03-06-10
Almost Good
This book was based on a sound idea and I looked forward to listening to it as I drive to and from work.
Perhaps the content was not fully what I expected but it recounted overly dry detail such as the reading through of the entire periodic table and thumbnails of Shakespeare's plays and the Brontes' books etc but for me it lacked real entertainment and the narration was really irritating.
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- Celia 22
- 08-10-17
It's a list - that is all it is a list
Thought this might be amusing, or educational - it's neither it's a mainly a list of stuff read aloud.
First bit is just one of those basic grammar things read aloud. This is followed by brief plots of Shakepeare, Dickens the Brontes etc read out at breakneck speed - not enough information to either learn anything new or refresh your memory if you had read the book in the dim and distant past. You would do better looking stuff up on Wikipedia - more info. Whole thing is annoying, pointless and a waste of a credit.
Save yours for something better.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Ann
- 18-06-10
Bit of a clunker
This doesn't work as an audiobook. Too many references to 'see page...' and the mathematical formulas were too confusing to listen to without having a pen and paper to hand.
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- Kai
- 23-01-12
don't bother
Really disappointed with this audio book this book simply does not work as an audio book. Too many references to 'see page and the huge lists make it nothing more than boring at its very best
i was expecting something else from this but unless you skipped every single lesson don’t expect to learn too much from this book
Probably best sold as a aid to sleeping
(Sorry) but it is awful.
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