Thumbs up for My Life As An Experiment: One Man’s Humble Quest to Improve Himself by A. J. Jacobs. Humor.
Jacobs is a funny guy, though unfortunately this book is nowhere near as good as The Know-It-All or The Year of Living Biblically
, simply by dint of the fact that it’s not as extensive (some might say obsessive) in scope as those. I’d say, read this one only if you are already a fan of the other two, and have also read Stephen Fatsis’s Word Freak, and Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia
, and Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, and and and….
Partly, of course, I’m drawn to these experiments because I’m a writer. And a writer who is cursed with a relatively uneventful upbringing. My dad was not a carny or a drunk or a spy, as far as I know. My ordinary life doesn’t merit a book. So I put myself into extraordinary situations, and see what happens.
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