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Summary: A journey through the dark mind of America's answer man...
Review: If this is your first opportunity to experience the demented world at the end of Cecil Adams' pen, I envy you. Adams answers all of the questions submitted by his "teeming millions" of fans--from the nutritional content of semen to where all of the baby pigeons disappear to. Far from a boring reference book, Adams dispenses wisdom and fact with rapier wit, leaving no target too sacred.
Adams' perfect foil is his illustrator, Slug Signorino, whose brush apparently passed through several mind-altering drugs before touching paper.
If you have any questions that you've been dying for an answer to, but were too shy to ask anybody or didn't know anybody who could possibly know, this is the book for you
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Summary: Endless fountains of wisdom (and trivia)
Review: Absolutely the best trivia book out there. An awesome collection of facts about practically everything, all presented in a very humorous way. Uncle Cecil is the best teacher for all of the triva mongers out there.
This book is just chock full of tasty tidbits of knowledge.
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Summary: Inquiring Minds want to Laugh!
Review: An amazing package, all the intelligence of William Buckley, but you can actually understand what he says! And is it ever funny! There is a plot twist round nearly every sentence. Here is my favorite quote (so far), in an explanation of why "midnight" is neither "AM" nor "PM". "... you could say, '1 nanosecond after 12, AM.' I trust you see the importance of the comma between '12' and 'AM' in this expression." I know. It may not seem like much. But at the right place this is just outrageously funny. I just never thought about it in exactly that way before. It is also about the only humor book that takes itself seriously to the extent of including an index. Darn good one, at that. Don't miss the book!
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Summary: Interesting information, probably not particularly useful..
Review: But highly amusing and fun. This book does not probe the great mysteries of the universe. Of course, Cecil answers questions that we have all tried to at one point or another. I personally, have always wondered how hair knows it has been cut. Thankfully, Cecil knows. I have never even heard of this guy. Whether he is famous in America remains unbeknown to me, but he certainly is far from famous here in Australia. It doesn't make him any less enjoyable, however their are several references to things that will make no sense to the average Australian, and also, considering it was written quite a while ago, no sense to a young reader. However, well worth the purchase, and the website is also worth the effort.
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Summary: The best Adams since John Quincy!
Review: Dude, man, this book was like...totally not like its title said it would be man. I mean, the only buzz I got off it was inhaling the fumes from the cover. No Dope anywhere to be found! It was like...
...
...a bummer. Fortunately there were also no rants on circumcision, SUVs, the liberal bias of the media, words that end in "gry," or the fact that Enterprise could beat out a Star Destroyer any day of the week so I'd give this book six stars if possible.
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Summary: Insightful, Funny, and Entertaining
Review: Ever ask yourself questions, seemingly silly ("What if...", "How does...", or "Hmmm... you know...") that you think are interesting but will never be answered? Sure you do. Well, THEY ARE ANSWERED IN THIS BOOK. Most of them anyway. Tons of questions of this type are answered in this book with humorous and insightful commentary from the one and only Cecil Adams. I personally have spent many, many hours wading through the vast Straight Dope archives. Pick up this book and you will probably do the same. If you a person who wonders about slightly off-kilter, perhaps unscientific topics, then this book is for you, it'll be a Godsend. The various sequels are good, if not quite on this one's level. Pick them up if you get addicted, but definately start here. Highly reccommended.
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Summary: Insightful, Funny, and Entertaining
Review: Ever ask yourself questions, seemingly silly ("What if...", "How does...", or "Hmmm... you know...") that you think are interesting but will never be answered? Sure you do. Well, THEY ARE ANSWERED IN THIS BOOK. Most of them anyway. Tons of questions of this type are answered in this book with humorous and insightful commentary from the one and only Cecil Adams. I personally have spent many, many hours wading through the vast Straight Dope archives. Pick up this book and you will probably do the same. If you a person who wonders about slightly off-kilter, perhaps unscientific topics, then this book is for you, it'll be a Godsend. The various sequels are good, if not quite on this one's level. Pick them up if you get addicted, but definately start here. Highly reccommended.
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Summary: A compilation of weird, exotic and funny trivia things
Review: First of all let me tell you Cecil Adams' work is not for impressionable people. He is quite outspoken and spits out things in some straightforward and perhaps rude way.
If that's ok for you and you are interested in trivia things, then I reccommend this book to you.
This is the very first book of his set of 4 and covers most of the most interesting articles appeaered on his column at the Chicago Reader since 1973.
Cecil is an eccentric guy who claims to be the "smartest" guy who knows it all around the world. its said he has devoted a whole house to compile and archive articles and data of various aspects deriving from Biology to Laws.
Tip: you can find most of his articles on line, and it wouldn't be a bad idea to read a couple of them first and find out your likeness for his way of writing.
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Summary: Ed Zotti AKA Cecil Adams gets the answers!
Review: Humorous answers to everyday "I wonder why's." Thisbook and its sequels provide the world with what the Chicago Tribunereaders have had for years. Cecil Adams, the self proclaimed smartest person on earth, has the tools necessary to get to the bottom of hoaxes, scams, and problems plaguing society. My favorite part is his/its ongoing solutions for ridding the world, or your apartment, of cockroaches.Cecil is not afraid to admit mistakes and that is refreshing.
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Summary: Great Book Answering Some of Life's Little "Trivia"
Review: I first got this book at a local Borders and was amazed at its interesting explanations and addicting prose. The books seems average enough. Its 420 pages long divided into different sections. Pretty tame and normal. But the content is far from it. The premise is also simple. Cecil Adams a pseudonym for an unknown person who I personally believe is Ed Zotti. The people send in questions and he answers them. But these are real questions. The kind that the average person thinks about or nulls about. The kind of questions that involve physics and sports and just plain out little riddles that we think about and never really received the answer to. Whats great is the intersting level and way that Cecil writes the answeres in. He writes so funny that I found myself laughing OUTLOUD which I usually never do. The questions are also answered not given some dumb explanation which no dumby could understand. Accompanied with the book are little cartoonsih pictures that are ok. Cecil is a national resource and i am glad that I got to know his books. They are fun and certaintly not boring as a lot of others can be. I recommend for the child (11 to 16) Know It All which is also quite entertaining. Buy this book for a laugh and YOU SHALL GET IT!
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