Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!

by Kenneth C. Davis

Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

031.02

Publication

Harper Paperbacks (2007), Paperback, 320 pages

Description

Provides answers to questions on subjects ranging from famous people and historical events to holidays and traditions, sports, and food.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kaelirenee

Kenneth Davis has written many books in his "Don't Know Much" series, covering everything from the Bible to the Universe to the Civil War. In all those books, he takes questions about his topic and give clear information, never very deep, but excellent starting points when learning about any new

topic. However, in DKMA Anything, he presents a series of mini-quizzes about each topic, giving brief sentence-length answers to each. This might be very entertaining and useful for middle- and high-school aged children and their families. It's also quite amusing to dip into. However, this format precludes reading in large doses or for any real insight into a topic.

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LibraryThing member omphalos02

Good book, with some fascinating and fun information, but the format is more like taking a series of little tests. Consequently I found I had to be flipping back and forth between the pages, which got tiresome.

LibraryThing member rastaphrog

An excellent book for learning some things you may have never heard before. Best read in small doses to avoid "fact overload" and give you time to think over what you've read and possibly do further research on something you'd like to learn even more about.

LibraryThing member bleached

A very fun trivia styled book of facts you feel you should know but still draw blanks. It was fun to learn new pieces of history about everything from presidents to hamburgers. At times I wished the book was more in depth on subjects and the page turning was a little tedious. Overall it was a fun

and education read.

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LibraryThing member TheBentley

This is a fun little trivia book, but it's not very interesting if you DO remember anything from school. Mental Floss does this kind of thing much better, as they work at finding information you actually might not have heard before.

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