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I didn't read the entire thing because it's longer than the Bible, but a great reference for curious people to learn new facts daily. I just open the book to random pages, learn some interesting info for half an hour and close it till the next time. Did you know Japanese is spoken on the small island country of Palau? Now I do thanks to this book!
Since I'm attempting to get on Jeopardy, I decided that a wide review of knowledge was necessary, and so I picked the second edition of this book at a used bookstore. Well, I certainly don't recommend trying to read this cover to cover as I did. It's really not made for that sort of thing, though I can tell you this: some of the section writers are far better at others in providing an overview of their field of expertise, and more than a couple don't know how to take an ideologically neutral sta...
This is a great book, together with "An Incomplete Education", this is my go to reference when I want to learn about a certain topic. I haven't read it from cover to cover, I just zoom in on the topic I want to learn about. Has served me very well so far.
This was a truly a massive collection of trivial knowledge on a vast area of topics. Not deep enough in all areas obviously but a good high level over view of a wide swatch of areas of knowledge.
I love this book. Words can not express how awesome it is.
This book (along with Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus) was all I really wanted for my birthday. I know, I know... I'm a book nerd. The Guide to Essential Knowledge is the most awesome and non-boring reference book I have ever perused. (No, I did not read all eight billion pages)
i didn't read the whole thing because its like a DICTIONARY. this thing is huge. its not a book were you read the whole thing but you could try if you really wanted to.
great to flip through... would probably take a year and a half to actually read the whole dang thing. Great for the bathroom! :)
