A review by blevins
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs

3.0

Encyclopedia as memoir in this early book by AJ Jacobs. He was successful in bridging real life and real information but the book lacked depth--hard to achieve possibly due to the organization of the book through selected passages of the encyclopedia as Jacobs read it. A daunting undertaking with clever moments but too many tangents on topics that didn't interest me in the slightest.