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The New York Times bestseller by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman?The Daily Show?s 'Resident Expert' and the 'PC' in the iconic Apple ads-picks up exactly where his first book left off. In fact, 'the new volume is in every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it's clearly superior.'(The Onion AV Club)
In 2005, John Hodgman published his first compendium of Complete World Knowledge, The Areas of My Expertise, a handy volume of fake trivia and made-up facts. Hodgmania was born. Virtually overnight, John Hodgman was whisked from tweedy obscurity to the high ether of minor celebrity. And from his strange new vantage point as a Famous Minor Television Personality, Hodgman realized that there is some world knowledge yet to be documented. And so he returned to exactly where he had left off-namely, page 256 of the paperback edition of The Areas of My Expertise. And he brought with him: MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE Which, naturally, begins on page 257. Like its predecessor, More Information than You Require consists of brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes such as:
THE PAST (because there is always more of it)
THE FUTURE (because they say there is still some left)
MOLE-MEN (including a list of 700 Mole-man names)
GAMBLING, THE SPORT OF THE ATHSMATIC MAN (including hermit crab racing)
CRYPTOGEOGRAPHY (including Canada)
HOW TO BE A FAMOUS MINOR TELEVISION PERSONALITY (Hint: Go on television)
AND NOW, the relatively pocket-sized and inexpensive paperback edition includes even more
MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, updated to include the very latest in implausibility.
PLUS!: This paperback edition includes a special self-expanding fold-out edition of THE TAXONOMY OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE, which you have probably never seen before because it has been carefully hidden. UNTIL NOW.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Michael Warner
reviewed More Information Than You Require on June 22, 2009
More Information Than You Require
A REVIEW, comprising two LISTS (one True and one False), of John Hodgman's More Information than You Require.
List the first:
1. It has nothing but kind things to say about modern-day troubador and Internet sensation Jonathan Coulton.
2. Pages 296-299 are actually made from pressed prosciutto (in hardback; domestic bacon was used for the paperback edition, and the audiobook contains merely a bacon-scented backscratcher).
3. Every copy of said hardback edition comes packaged with a hollowed-out boar's tusk, filled with the bright-red husks of the cochineal beetle, which may be used in lieu of blood for signing official contracts with Satan or his emissaries.
4. Hodgman himself will read it to you happily in its entirety, if you should run across him in your local supermarket or organic electronics store and ask him politely using the secret code word on Page 316.
5. Hodgman's photograph is a hologram, one layer of which contains a steganographic copy of the entire book encoded as a moiré pattern on Hodgman's suit, including the author photograph, one layer of which contains a moiré-encoded copy of the entire book... this recursive encoding causes a warping of space and time that has swallowed up several chain bookstores and at least one independent (but not Powell's).
List the 2nd:
1. It is wildly funny, with at least one chuckle on every page.
2. It uses frequent EMPHASIS in the form of CAPITALIZATION and italics.
3. It is a direct continuation of The Areas of My Expertise, with ongoing pagination and numbering of figures and tables.
4. It has heavily influenced the format of this review.
5. The determination of which list is TRUE and which FALSE has been left as an EXERCISE for the READER.
THAT IS ALL
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