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The Importance of Being Trivial: In Search of the Perfect Fact
Brown Book Group Little
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Description for The Importance of Being Trivial: In Search of the Perfect Fact
Paperback. Our love of trivia must reveal something truly important about us. This title asks trivialists the fundamental questions such as: are men more obsessed with trivia than women? Can it be proved that house flies hum in the key of F? Can anything ever really be proved? Is there a perfect fact, and if so what is it? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
If you're intrigued by the fact that Jack the Ripper was left-handed, or that Heinz ketchup flows at 0.7 miles per day - and, more importantly, intrigued by why you're intrigued - then this book is required reading. Convinced that our love of trivia must reveal something truly important about us, Mark Mason sets out to discover what that something is. And, in the process, he asks the fundamental questions that keep all trivialists awake at night: Why is it so difficult to forget that Keith Richards was a choirboy at the Queen's coronation when it's so hard to remember ... Read more
If you're intrigued by the fact that Jack the Ripper was left-handed, or that Heinz ketchup flows at 0.7 miles per day - and, more importantly, intrigued by why you're intrigued - then this book is required reading. Convinced that our love of trivia must reveal something truly important about us, Mark Mason sets out to discover what that something is. And, in the process, he asks the fundamental questions that keep all trivialists awake at night: Why is it so difficult to forget that Keith Richards was a choirboy at the Queen's coronation when it's so hard to remember ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099521822
SKU
KNW0009111
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Brown Book Group Little
Mark Mason's previous non-fiction includes The Bluffer's Guide To Football and The Bluffer's Guide To Bond. He is also the author of three novels, and has written for most British national newspapers (though never about anything too heavy), and magazines from the Spectator to Four Four Two.
Reviews for The Importance of Being Trivial: In Search of the Perfect Fact
Mason's personal odyssey has an irresistibly hapless charm.
Guardian
... a bridge back to proper reading for those who have become unhealthily addicted to the likes of "Steve Wright's Further Factoids".
Sunday Telegraph
I loved this book - this is quality trivia.
Richard and Judy
Every pub should have one.
BBC Radio 3 ... Read more
Guardian
... a bridge back to proper reading for those who have become unhealthily addicted to the likes of "Steve Wright's Further Factoids".
Sunday Telegraph
I loved this book - this is quality trivia.
Richard and Judy
Every pub should have one.
BBC Radio 3 ... Read more