The Areas of My Expertise

by: John Hodgman See Larger Image Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607 Format: Bargain Price Label: Riverhead Trade Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: September 05, 2006 Publisher: Riverhead Trade Sales Rank: 16785 Studio: Riverhead Trade Related Items: More Information Than You Require Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Assassination Vacation The Wordy Shipmates SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Borges meets the bathroom book in John Hodgman's bestselling almanac of complete (and fabricated) world knowledge. Abridged CDs - 4 CDs, 5 hours Amazon.com Review: With his Daily Show appearances and his 'I'm a PC' Apple ads, John Hodgman has only become more famous since the hardcover edition of his all-you-need compendium of facts, The Areas of My Expertise was released. He has also become smarter. To reflect this, the paperback edition of The Areas of My Expertise has been expanded to include 100 new hobo names and new, additional complete world knowledge. John Hodgman and his fur-hatted associate, Jonathan, have prepared an exclusive video for Amazon customers explaining the above. Click here or on the image above to watch John Hodgman describe the only book you'll ever need. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Illinois Obama It is a strange creativity to compose a list of 700 hobo names. Number 424, Illinois Obama, demonstrates genius. Rating: - Unfunny Book is trite and boring. Just long lists of really unfunny stuff. Not even worth keeping in the bathroom. Rating: - Boxcar Aldous Huxley This is one of the 700 hobo names that appear in this book, and it had me on the floor of a hospital waiting room convulsing and crying. Soon the other people in the waiting room realized I was not having any sort of attack, but I think a few of the people sitting next to me were a little worried. There are people who won't "get it" (the aforementioned "it" is the humor in this book). If you are a fan of absurdism, deadpan, surreal, non-sequitur, and false news humor, this is for you. For those that get a kick out of someone slipping on a banana peel and falling down (which I am not putting down, all different kinds of comedy have merit), you may find this book tedious and cerebral. Hodgman definitely plays the know-it-all character well, and the snootiness is absolutely hilarious. I just got his 2nd book, and look forward to freaking out many more people in hospital waiting rooms. Rating: - Don't read in public Areas of My Expertise is hilarious. It meanders at a wonderful pace. I joke with my kids about hobos, so I've read some of the hobo passages and hobo names to them. My only complaint is that you shouldn't read it in public, as laughing like a maniac on the subway is frowned on at 6:00am. I can imagine that Hodgeman was beat up or ridiculed in middle school by the other kids, as he was probably geeky and somewhat obtuse then, too. The fact that he didn't conform is to his credit. He is who he is, and this book is a lot of fun. Rating: - Rubbish :( This is simply the worst book I've bought in a long time. I didn't find it remotely funny. Previously I've bought other books by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and found them to be hilarious so I expected this to contain the same kind of clever satire that the other two authors have used to great effect. Instead I get a list of a couple of hundred hobo names and a phases of the moon chart for werewolf transformations. Seriously, I appreciate that you've done some ads for Apple and get a semi-regular stint on the Daily Show but this is just cack. Awful, I want my $5 back. More The Areas of My Expertise Reviews Browse for similar items by category: Literature & Fiction - Bargain Books - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General Humor - Entertainment - Subjects - Books - Satire Humor - Entertainment - Subjects - Books - Satire, General Paperback Trade

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