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The Know-It-All
- One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
The mission began in October 2002, with the word "a-ak". The word launches hilarious misadventures through 32 volumes, as Jacobs accumulates useful and less-so knowledge, and along the way finds a deep connection with his father, examines the nature of knowledge vs. intelligence, and learns how to be rather annoying at cocktail parties.
The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions, and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the obsessive quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.
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- fcarouge
- 16-08-23
Interesting and personal book
Had so much fun listening to that book, so funny and interesting. Learnt a lot of new facts.
I would love to have this book read by the author, the same way other books are. The narrator is not bad but does awful accents and sometimes overacting.
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- Bright
- 13-12-18
Just great!
It could just be my fascination with big books and hunger for knowledge, but this would make a great tv show or, at least, a movie 😃
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- Janice
- 28-09-13
Just Brilliant!
Had this as our 'bedtime story' learnt some good snippets of information (wish we could remember all of it!) It was funny, interesting and very well told. You can pick this up, listen to a bit and pick up where you left off.
A really enjoyable listen, thankyou.
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