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Author name: John Hodgman

: The Areas of My Expertise
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: October 20, 2005
Publishing house: Dutton Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 293297
Studio: Dutton Adult



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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
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - bizarre but funny
Having written a magazine review of John Hodgman's "More Information Than You Require," I bought this because, after all, the two books are really one book (check the page numbering). It's a loony kind of book but a lot of fun to read. (Beware of reading it in public if you don't want strangers to see you giggle.)


Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Basically the same stuff, some of it amusing and most not, contained in his second book.
John Hodgman appears to be a genuinely funny man during his appearances on "The Daily Show" with the sainted Jon Stewart.

Then why is this book so disappointing? (I confess I only read the very first 60 or so pages before punting)

Because if you've read "More Information Than You Require", you've gotten all the available juice out of this piece of fruit. Author Hodgman simply does not deviate: the very first book is the same as the second.

I enjoyed "More Information Than You Require", as you can see by my review, though it certainly got tired about the time that Hodgman listed, over several pages, potential names of something or other. Talk about needing an editor of funny business, John.

Not recommended unless you have plenty of free time. And even then......


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - The Hodge is a genius.
John Hodgman is a man among boys. He is truly a gift to be enjoyed again and again.


Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Incomprehensible Babble
Don't buy this book. It alternates with boring, boring self absorbed descriptions of the author's life followed by incomprehensive babble that appears to be generated by a person with scrambled eggs for brains. If you like to read incomprehensible nonsense, you'll like this book.

Oh, and it is not funny except that it is a joke that this book was actually published.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Illinois Obama
It is a strange creativity to compose a list of 700 hobo names. Number 424, Illinois Obama, demonstrates genius.

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