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How To

By: Randall Munroe
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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Summary

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer.

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

Best-selling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analysing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon.

By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his listeners. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

©2019 xkcd inc (P)2019 Penguin Random House Audio
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Good, but not great

I thought this book had a bit of a slow start, but did get more interesting as it went on, but perhaps that's just because it got more into physics which is more my interest. There's not much in the way of logic to the layout of the book as it's just a collection of thought experiments, however there's certainly some amusing ponderings & a lot of silly, but accurate, mathematics for a lot of the thought experiments.
I actually own a hardcopy of this book & I've never managed to get into it, but as something to listen to on the daily commute this has been quite nice.

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Fantastic!

Fascinating, absurd and illuminating throughout. Very well adapted, and brilliantly read. Comic/scientific/literary genius. Love it!

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idk it's good

idk it's good and its rely funy and cleaver I enjoyed this I recomend for peopl who need a book









yea

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Great as always with a very small issue

A wonderful a fun book,read in the ideal way by Will Wheaton. The only little issue was Will seemed to be close to his mike for some of the narrative and further away from it on others. So I has to adjust the volume to compensate for this louder then quieter voice performance. A small price to pay, but may irritate some.

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Entertaining information

I totally didn't recognize Will's voice til he said ot at the end. I face-palmed. Great read!

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If you liked What If, then you’ll like this too

What If is laugh out loud funny and surprisingly informative. This is just the same. I hope Randle continues to write even more user manuals for life

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Great book

Really enjoyed this and has furthered my interest in physics. It's great to have a book you can learn from but is also really entertaining and keeps you interested even when it's all about numbers and formulas
Could not rate Randall Munroe any higher

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Geekily side-splitting

Oh guys, you're in for a treat, not only is the book itself the nerdiest brain dive ever committed to paper but @wilw is the PERFECT narratorz too.

10/10!

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escape to the real world

guy's a genius....highly entertaining way of looking at science 🤩⭐🧘⭐🤩 let's all put our houses on an aeroplane!!!

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xkcd and Wil

yeah it's what it said it would be, excellent. nerdy numbers in a fun way, with great narration

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