A.j. Jacobs

A.J. Jacobs se propuso obedecer todos los mandatos de la Biblia durante un año, desde los Diez Mandamientos hasta otra serie de advertencias menos conocidas (no vestirás ropa de distintas fibras, lapidarás a los adúlteros, no usarás un asiento antes ocupado por una mujer en edad de menstruar…) Todo ello estrictamente al pie de la letra. Se dejó crecer la barba y se vio forzado a decir siempre la verdad. El resultado es este libro divertidísimo, que demuestra que también seguir la Biblia puede cambiar y enriquecer tu vida espiritual.

Hace muchos, muchos años, los cuentos de hadas llegaron a ser muy aburridos, pues una vez pronunciadas las primeras palabras el niño o la niña ya conocían toda la trama e incluso el final. Los mejores médicos suelen recetarlos para niños y niñas de entre 1 y 100 años.

33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but unconvinced. With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child. The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions, and a struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.