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- Format: Hardcover Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
- Number of Pages: 320
- ISBN: 1416599061
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112991618
- Release Date: September 8, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #32734 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #144 in Humor (See Top 100 Humor Bestsellers)
- #59 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by A. J. Jacobs (Author)Run a Quick Search on "The Guinea Pig Diaries" by A. J. Jacobs to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Guinea Pig Diaries"Browse more products related to "A. J. Jacobs"Review"The nine stories reveal an everyman who is willing to try just about anything and doesn't even try to gloss over his foibles. Witty self-deprecation is Jacobs' bread, butter and jam, and his attempts to correct (or at least confront) his flaws drive the action." "Jacobs...could be the funniest nonfiction writer this side of Bill Bryson....[His] storytelling is lighthearted and frequently laugh-out-loud funny....There aren't a lot of nonfiction books you want to read over and over, but this is certainly one of them." (starred review) Publisher's noteThe best-selling memoirist of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically describes his experiments with a variety of activities from going undercover as a woman and outsourcing to India to saying whatever is on his mind and embarking on public nudity. The best-selling memoirist of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically describes his experiments with a variety of activities from going undercover as a woman and outsourcing to India to saying whatever is on his mind and embarking on public nudity. A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "My Life as a Hot Woman." AnnotationA. J. Jacobs has carved out a niche for himself in the memoir sub-genre known as "experimental autobiography." (Other examples include Barbara Ehrenrich's NICKEL AND DIMED or, most famous of them all, John Howard Griffith's BLACK LIKE ME.) Previously Jacobs has read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (THE KNOW-IT-ALL) and lived a year according to the bizarre strictures of the Bible (THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY). In THE GUINEA PIG DIARIES he recounts a few other outlandish self-experiments such as: obeying George Washington's "110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation"; becoming a member of the "Radical Honesty" movement (which resulted in offending everyone he came in contact with); pretending to be a bombshell female on an internet dating site; outsourcing his entire life to India; and obeying for a month his wife's every whim (she even writes the chapter on this experiment). As always Jacobs writing is hilarious, absurd, and wonderfully insightful. His bizarre populist performance pieces are a delight. If You Enjoy "The Guinea Pig Diaries (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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