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- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
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Publisher's 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.
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- 匿名
- 12-10-2019
Great
The narration by Will Wheaton is really good. The writing of the book is both thought provoking and entertaining. My only problem are in a few of the chapters there a physic formula, which don’t lend well to a audiobook. Apart from that, I would recommend it.
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- Maxwell
- 12-10-2020
This was hilarious!!
Few books have ever made me actually laugh out loud, but Randall's books both had me in tears a few times
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- G. van Staden
- 18-12-2019
Good but SI Units Would’ve Made it Great
A truely interesting and entertaining book! Some of the examples are in feet and inches which detracts a bit from their impact on folk like myself who are use to SI units. Some of the equations don’t work well in audio format, it would’ve been better if this was provided as additional material that could be viewed. Still well worth a careful listen
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- Matthew
- 06-09-2019
When is the next one available?
Only one complaint: it’s too short.
The Munroe/Wheaton combo is my favourite on Audible. I’ve listened to “What If” at least ten times, both my children love it, and I pre-ordered “How To” as soon as it became available.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that it was only 6 hours long. It is awesome - but I want more!! I finished it in a day and just started listening a second time.
Being on the next publication.
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- Bryden
- 29-01-2020
too-much vocal fry
An intrestingly silly jaunt by munroe from the amusing and impractical to allmost usefull information.
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- brad
- 27-10-2019
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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- Hal
- 13-07-2020
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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- longarmjon
- 15-11-2021
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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- Mr. Baker
- 01-10-2021
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- mtg101
- 06-02-2021
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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- The Dark Newt
- 11-11-2020
Shut up Wesley.
A good book, read to us by the most soy, beta man ever to wear a pair of trousers.
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- Ms C Higman
- 07-03-2020
Fantastic!
Fascinating, absurd and illuminating throughout. Very well adapted, and brilliantly read. Comic/scientific/literary genius. Love it!
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- papapownall
- 04-03-2020
Ultimately nerdy guide to everything
Listening to Randall Munroe reminds me of Robin Williams' character in Mork and Mindy; you know the slightly erratic and highly strung alien who knows everything about the universe apart from how to interact with humans but is desperate to learn. Munroe has a similar nerdy manner that entertains the reader / listener and, although his delivery is a little strange, it is an enjoyable, if not absurd listen and you really do not know what direction he is going to go off into next. This can be exhausting trying to keep up with the author's razor sharp and fast thinking mind and I recommend reading or listening to this book in short blasts otherwise it can be overwhelming. I it stands up to a second reading too as so much of the detail can go over your head the first time around there is plenty of information layers to mine that you will be quoting for days afterwards.
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- Martyn
- 20-02-2020
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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- M. Marshall
- 17-09-2019
No comparison to What If?
Was looking forward to this as I loved What If? This is no where near the same level. Learning about all the ways you can cross a river is no comparison to learning how long you'll survive in a submarine in space, or whether a machine gun jetpack would work.
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