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Laddar... Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictionsav Chris Regan
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. A good idea for a book, but I would've preferred more offbeat facts and less farcical glosses on well-known history. William Howard Taft was fat; very edgy. Much like the Daily Show, some funny bits but too much of it comes across like lobbing darts at a bullseye the size of, well, William Howard Taft.Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. This a good book to read for a quick chuckle. No big guffaws, though. Very american-centric. If you like the Daily Show, you'll enjoy reading this. I'd say it's a good bathroom book. The design and graphics are very nice. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I tend to take history way too seriously (Hollywood movies and historical fiction tend to annoy me because I can't help but point out the errors!) but I really enjoyed this book. After teaching American history all day and reading it all night I should probably look for other sources of entertainment but this is good fun. Recommended! Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I loved this book. I admit I might be biased because I have a strong interest in history, but I found it interesting and hilarious. It's very much in the spirit of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report so it might not be your cup of tea if you're looking for straight, dry history. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I received a free copy of this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. It arrived rather quickly after I submitted my request.Overall, I enjoyed the book. It is not something that I would have normally read cover-to-cover, however. It is the type of book that I would have browsed while sitting in the bookstore cafe, or skimmed while visiting my sister. The book takes the form of a day-by-day calendar, with one entry for each day of the year. Entries focus on bad things, good things, folks who died and were born, and random commentary related to the posts from other dates. The entries are written in a very easy to read style, and are very funny. I laughed out loud on several occasions, and like having another person around to share some of the funnier lines with. The author has a very visible left-wing bias, taking frequent pot-shots at the administration of George W. Bush and questioning the war in Iraq. As such, the book might not age very well. As an aside, the book was difficult to read cover to cover simply because of its size. It is a small version of a "coffee table" book and difficult to hold for 15 minutes before falling asleep in bed. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
You can't change the past, but with Mass Historia, Chris Regan has done a very fine job of making fun of it." --Stephen Colbert The History Channel meets Comedy Central in this sidesplitting, quasi-historical almanac by Chris Regan, a five time Emmy award winning comedy writer and one of the coauthors of Jon Stewart's bestselling America (The Book). Regan flips through our nation's historical calendar to offer up unknown, unrepentant, and often-unbelievable facts for every day of the year. Based on genuine, historical occurrences, Regan sets out to rewrite history with his unique satirical voice. As Regan explains, "Enjoy this book, learn something from it, but do not reference it in any scholarly paper." Consider entries like June 12th, 1991: "Russians elect Boris Yeltsin president. Yeltsin suggests a toast to Democracy, wakes up shoeless on a bus eight years later." Or Regan's entry for May 15th, 1718: "A London Lawyer named James Puckle patents the world's first machine gun, because lawyering was not doing enough to crush the soul of mankind." The reader will also learn about the November 11th, 1918 birth of "Armistice Day, which was later changed to Veterans' Day, so that Americans could more easily pronounce what they annually ignored." Full-color photographs, along with amusing sidebars, lists, and mock historical images aid in providing definitive answers to historical curiosities such as, "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" or the similarities between music moguls Kevin Federline and Johann Sebastian Bach. Readers will even discover that Alexander G. Bell's famous cry of, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," during the first telephone conversation was, in fact, the invention of the Booty Call. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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