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The Audiobook of the Year (2018)
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Publisher's Summary
Random House presents The Audiobook of the Year (2018), written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish: James Harkin, Jane Hill, Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski.
Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again.
Following hot on the heels of the success of The Audiobook of the Year (or, more precisely, 12 months later), The Audiobook of the Year (2018) bravely delves behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the past 12 months.
Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, it will establish - among other things - that:
- Britain’s first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week
- Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes exist only in the game Call of Duty
- During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard.
- A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part.
Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami bitcoin conference that stopped accepting bitcoin - The Audiobook of the Year (2018) promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-2018
loved it! Even better than last years!
I love them so much! Inertesting and funny as usual and could listen to these guys talk all day. I am a huge fan of QI, but these guys are the real stars of the show.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-04-2019
Great
If you like the podcast you will like this. Very funny. Very limited life spam as current data.
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- Rukai
- 24-03-2019
Exciting and fun as always
If you enjoy 'Fish, you'll enjoy their audiobook of the year!
Plenty of interesting facts, fun banters and overall good time.
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- Thomas
- 21-12-2018
Another fantastic audio book from these absolute legends
Really interesting and often very funny, this is a great listening experience and highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-2018
Amazing
Loved it. Listened to it in it's entirety during a road trip between Melbourne and Sydney. It made the trip so much quicker. I did the same thing last year with the 2017 edition. I hope NSTAAF put out a new edition every year so I can continue the tradition.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-12-2018
Not all facts/Trump Bashing
As you can tell by the cover there's a lot of trump bashing in this book. I would have given it a higher score, however, when they're quoting things Stormy Daniels says as fact I find it hard to believe everything their actually saying.
Generally I do enjoy there podcasts, but I'm just a bit over the Trump bashing and it appears they a bit one sided in there opinions.
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- Stuart
- 18-12-2018
Interesting and amusing
Interesting and diverse facts discussed amusingly. Excellent narration with lots of background knowledge to contextualise discussion
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- Sharon
- 11-11-2018
if you like the podcast, you'll love the book.
if you like the podcast, you'll love the book. always a joy to listen to!
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-11-2019
Never Fails to Entertain and Educate
Love the podcast and love the audiobook!!
Off to listen to The AudioBook of 2019.
Keep them coming team!!
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- R. Lehr
- 08-11-2019
One of few good ways to remember 2018
All the nerdy joy of the annual compendium of facts, with so many hours of wit and silliness added that it’s like having three extra books. Perfect for driving or public transport (barring the odd bark of laughter), and the only retrospective of 2018 that I trust.
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- Melissa Rose
- 08-10-2019
Perfect way to summarize a year
I mean, there is not much to review about this book other than to say that it was a 10 hour No Such Thing as a Fish Podcast which I can't complain about; makes a perfect way to summarize each year. The Audiobook version is 100% the only way to go for this particular book.
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- Melissa
- 14-08-2019
Perfect way to summarize a year
I mean, there is not much to review about this book other than to say that it was a 10 hour No Such Thing as a Fish Podcast which I can't complain about; makes a perfect way to summarize each year. The Audiobook version is 100% the only way to go for this particular book.
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- patrick turchan
- 12-06-2019
This book is just what I was looking for comedy. I'm glad ive found. It. I'm hope to buy more of them
Dale Turchan Patrick1335@att.net
Please email. Me when there's more of them Thank you. For your help..
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- Kim
- 09-04-2019
No such thing as a bad audiobook
Absolutely loved every moment, tried to drag it out to prevent it from ending to soon and am about to start it again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-03-2019
Informative, enjoyable and funny
I enjoyed last year's "Book of the year", I enjoyed this year as well. it's like a really really long podcast, with a strange lady interspersed in random moments. I'll definitely give it a re-listen!
(could maybe use a bit more attention in the audio editing part)
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- Mike Sapp
- 23-02-2019
brilliant
big fan of the podcast, the book is an excellent exclamation point on the year
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- Daniel
- 05-02-2019
A very QInteresting book
Did you know that in 2018....?
If not this is the book for you!
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-10-2018
Excellent Listen
Am a big fan of the "No Such Thing as a Fish" and this year's book of the year has more of the feel of the podcast. Last years was the book read aloud - and enjoyable for that. This year has more interaction between the 4 and more of the podcast feel.
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-12-2018
great content- shame about the weird editing
Love the content but bad editing nearly spoilt this. Multiple takes were left in and sometimes words were interrupted randomly.
still enjoyed it though
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- J
- 23-01-2019
Great book but plagued with poor editing
I really enjoy the podcasts to a 9 hour version is great for me. It suffers from poor editing however with lots of repeated sentences not being removed and chapter titles inserted in the middle of sentences.
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- Niall
- 11-02-2019
Great long podcast episode
If you enjoy "No such thing as a fish" you won't be disappointed. Like an extended episode, with additions you won't get in the print edition.
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- Connor
- 28-01-2019
Like a very long podcast
Since it's written and narrated by the NSTAAF team, it's like a 9 hour podcast with the same demeanour and banter. If you're a religious follower of the podcast then you'll notice a few repeats, but the majority of the content is new and fresh. Unlike most current-event-based productions, this could be visited years down the line and still be interesting. NSTAAF did a great job producing a light-hearted review of the year's weird news,, exactly as I had hoped it would after following the weekly podcast.
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- Silje
- 18-12-2019
No such thing as a book as good as the podcast
Filled to the brim with interesting and hilarious facts of the year 2018, but I don’t particularity like that they read the facts rather than render them Moore freely like in the podcast.
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- Owen Beynon
- 06-12-2019
More material than the book
They made it like the podcast and improvised around the book. Worth listening to the Audible version over reading the book, especially if you're a regular Fish podcast listener. Now shh, I've just downloaded 2019..
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- Emma
- 04-11-2019
Great fun
Always fun to listen to and great to be able to dip in and out of.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-09-2019
woop woop
awesome collection of facts as we have come to expect from the NSTF guys and gals
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-07-2019
great fun
This book was enjoyable and informative
If you enjoy hearing about the bizarre news that tends to go unnoticed this audio book is a must.