Product Description
When it was originally published in 1987, An Incomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here’s your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catc… More >>
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn’t
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#1 by J. A. Best on January 27, 2010 - 1:25 am
First reading found three errors.
Second found another.
Not too swift if I can stop them.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Mir Sekandari on January 27, 2010 - 3:12 am
I was wondering around Barne’s and Noble when I came across this book and was very impressed with the amount of subjects it covered. I thumbed through it and decided to shop lift it. I started to read and i must say that I was unimpressed with the wit and lack of depth. The book covers a range of topics very well but it is does not go into much depth. A page and a half on Islam and Christianity is not enough to wet my appetite to read further on the subjects. The worst thing about the book is the wit. It makes for very slow reading and throws your concentration completely off. Some of it was funny, but must they make everything so jokey? It is a good thing i didn’t pay for it. Looking back, I wished I had gotten arrested.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Billy Blackfeather on January 27, 2010 - 5:12 am
I recently had to move and I lost a couple boxes of books. The first book I thought of was An Incomplete Education. Finding it wasn’t lost made my day all by itself.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by David Altschul on January 27, 2010 - 6:57 am
In 600-plus pages that mention nothing about the history of Israel or the wars against Israel, and ignore anti-semitis=im in discussing the Dreyfus affair, the editors ignore the first five books of the Old Testatment in dismissing Judaism as a religion not concerned with reward and punishment, and print a map locating Jerusalem im some place called Palestine. In discussing “Bibles” never mention the illiterate committee that gave us the James, never refer to translations of the Hbrew work alone. Hard to say what other blindness, prejudice, and falsehood creeps into the tome. Asked about Bill Fulbright, LBJ compared him to a bucket of fresh milk squeezed staright from the cow after old Bessie whooshed her tail trough a cowpie and dropped it into the pail. anyone who wants to drink here should be wary.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Kelly J. Lafrance on January 27, 2010 - 8:27 am
i was very dissapointed with the information in this book, it was a boring read as well.
Rating: 2 / 5