Book Review - xkcd What If? by Randall Monroe

I have this terrible habit, when I like a book, of reading chunks of it out to my friends, family, anyone foolish enough to give me their phone number. When I started reading this, I read the entire preface down the phone to my poor unfortunate mother.

It is that good!

cleoselene, you'll enjoy the baseball-related answers. Actually, that's the thing, it's one of those books where you go, "ooh, x will really love that," or "y is going to flip their lid".

It's a pleasing mixture of funny, accurate and that peculiar fire-bugginess that you find in scientists of all stripes.

The cartoons made me giggle, and the rest of it made me think. Definitely recommended.

I think that I might have found an explanation for how the Moon escaped in Space: 1999 (and a bit of Sapphire and Steel).

I mean, I am going to ignore the idea that Charles II was the last Habsburg because I do not expect an American author to know that the Spanish Habsburgs were not the be all and end all of the Habsburgs. No matter how miffed I become each time.

Also, mild humblebrag hiding as a conflict of interest statement, I have exchanged emails with the book's chemistry advisor.

( Librarything Suggestions )

I have two of those books, even if I haven't got round to reading them yet.