{"id":19810,"date":"2018-05-07T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19810"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:10:20","slug":"book-report-well-duh-our-stupid-world-and-welcome-to-it-by-bob-fenster-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/book-report-well-duh-our-stupid-world-and-welcome-to-it-by-bob-fenster-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Well, Duh: Our Stupid World, and Welcome To It<\/i> by Bob Fenster (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI read this Internet listicle of a book while sitting in various bleachers while my child or children practiced basketball. This has proven to be my most focused reading time of late, which is why I’ve not yet read twenty books this year, and given the locale, it’s not suited for particularly heavy reading. So Internet listicles in print fills that “I want to be reading something, but now I’m distracted” void.<\/p>\n

This book is a collection of stories and bulleted lists about people doing stupid things. What do I remember from it? Only that you cannot trust a word of it, as it recounts the Rutherford B. Hayes knocks the telephone<\/a> story that I know is not true. You know, in books of trivia, the authors sometimes insert incorrect trivia to try to catch people who violate their copyrights. I doubt this is the case here: instead, it’s just a collection of stories the author heard on the Internet.<\/p>\n

So it killed some time for me, but that’s about it.<\/p>\n