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QI: The Sound of General Ignorance

By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Narrated by: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
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Listen and learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one best seller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form.

Allow yourself to wallow in the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge'. Your newfound wisdom will help you to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. Henry VIII had six wives - wrong! Everest is the highest mountain in the world - wrong! Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone - wrong! Everything you think you know is - wrong!

©2013 Faber & Faber (P)2013 Faber & Faber Literature & Fiction Satire Funny Witty Thought-Provoking

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I loved the book but it dropped a star for me because when listening through headphones I found it annoying that the two narrators spoke at different volumes.

Well I didn't know that...

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Things I thought I knew but didn't. A brilliant cornucopia of abstruse facts loosely linked together. Enjoy!

Fascinating facts!

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Well narrated bag of facts. I just wish it would have been much longer than it was.

Well narrated bag of facts

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This is the kind of book I'd hope to have on my coffee table for people to dip into and learn, or unlearn, something new. Really enjoyed the facts and figures this book holds. I think I personally would prefer just one narrator, but that's just my preference.

Coffee Table Book

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very funny well written a great listen on long drives I liked the fact about the blue whale

brilliant

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Firstly, I liked the way the book swapped between narrators. It was done very well and I enjoyed both narrators. The book is full of interesting facts which correct many, long held misconceptions. I had heard a few before, but a lot of the facts were new to me and I spent a lot of the time saying 'really?', when I was listening to the book. Thoroughly enjoyable and good to dip in and out of because of the way the sections are set up in the book. Good for me and my (short) 20 minute drive to work. Will be looking to see if there are any other books from QI, as I really liked this one.

Excellent book full of amazing facts

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Listening to this miscellany is a guilty fridge fest of sugar and fat with little advantage for the brain other than pure entertainment and distraction from the milleu

A tempting pot pourri

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4000 species of frogs making all sort of noise and we're stuck with a sound of a Hollywood frog 🐸 everywhere ;)

full of randomness

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A great Listen, it captured my thought process.
I will be going back through this as so much information to retain in one go, but you want to
know what comes next. Enjoy as I did.

A Must!!

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Apparently QI stands for quite interesting. They will need some new initials for this book as it is a lot more than just quite interesting!!

Fascinating

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