More Information Than You Require

By: John Hodgman

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the paperless (or "audiobook") edition of More Information Than You Require, a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE assembled and illumined by John Hodgman, a Famous Minor Television Personality. It contains all of the half-truths, fake trivia, amazing made-up facts, and molemanic lore as the paper edition, narrated here almost entirely by Resident Expert John Hodgman, occasionally interrupted by this veritable extravaganza of illustrious and sometimes presumptuous guests: Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow, Paul Rudd, Paul F. Tompkins, and Sarah Vowell.

PLUS: This recording includes ALL 700 MOLE-MAN NAMES as they were written and subsequently performed LIVE BEFORE A STUDIO AUDIENCE in an underground lair in Brooklyn, N.Y.

©2008 John Hodgman (P)2009 Penguin Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"In every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it's clearly superior....More Information Than You Require is exactly the tonic for these truth-challenged times: a transformation of pedestrian reality through the enlightened power of imagination and insatiable list-making." (The Onion A/V Club)
"I love this book so much I nearly read it." (Justin Long)

Genuinely not funny

The writing is good and the spoken performance is well done, however, the jokes simply are not funny. The musical bits are the best part of the book.

Baffeled

I tried to listen to this book three times. I swear; I honestly tried. I wanted to give it its due.
I gave up.

Highly overrated

I thought about shutting it off within the first five minutes, but I decided to get through the interminable prologue before giving up on it. It does get marginally better, but I wouldn't recommend it.

This is one of the most unfunny humor books I have ever read or downloaded. At times, I was vaguely amused, but my predominant emotion was annoyance. His voice is grating, and his repetition of "jokes" (his musical co-host is a feral mountain man) and phrases (I gave up after hearing "It Happened Today...in the Past" for the 200th time) is equally as grating. I truly don't understand why people found this so funny.

I suppose if you enjoyed his previous book, which after listening to this one I won't bother to try, you would like this. For my part, I would recommend Bossypants for a clever, funny humor book read by the author.

Misses more than it hits

John hodge man has some pretty funny moments in this book but they never seemed to outweigh the ones that missed the mark. Maybe I'm not the right target audience, so there is that too. Took me a long time to finish as I kept opting to just buy new books rather than finish this one.

"Look at me, I'm funny"

Listening to this book is like being trapped at a dinner party with a guy who thinks he's a lot wittier than he really is.

I agree with the other reader reviews that label this audiobook as tedious, self-indulgent, and most of all, unfunny.

For what it's worth, I'm someone who would generally fall right into Hodgman's demographic. I like non-sequitur, deadpan, sarcastic humor -- and I don't think I even chuckled during the 5+ hours of this that I forced myself through.

Waste of time and money

Absolutely no merit....as if my fourteen year old son and friends got together to make up funny history...only it isn't, not funny nor clever...don't waste your money

Sophomoric Indeed!

I feel it my public duty to warn others not to waste a credit on this mess. I can't say it any better than the reviewer from NC on 11/11/09: "sophomoric, repetitive, self indulgent prattle". I suspect that the earlier superlative reviews were planted.

Highly overrated

I thought about shutting it off within the first five minutes, but I decided to get through the interminable prologue before giving up on it. It does get marginally better, but I wouldn't recommend it.

This is one of the most unfunny humor books I have ever read or downloaded. At times, I was vaguely amused, but my predominant emotion was annoyance. His voice is grating, and his repetition of "jokes" (his musical co-host is a feral mountain man) and phrases (I gave up after hearing "It Happened Today...in the Past" for the 200th time) is equally as grating. I truly don't understand why people found this so funny.

I suppose if you enjoyed his previous book, which after listening to this one I won't bother to try, you would like this. For my part, I would recommend Bossypants for a clever, funny humor book read by the author.

A good way to waste your money

Had the potential to be funny but missed the mark. One of those few purchases I made that I regretted.

Really should have read the customer reviews first would have saved me the money.

Live and Learn

Not all lies...

are born the same. There are different kind of lies, say irony, satire, sarcasm, hillarious mythomania... Hodgman can handle them all with ease.

The there is the arrogant self indulgent lie.
The lie for the sake of just talking. The lie so silly and so outragous that it just insults yhour intelligence, the missed irony of someone who is trying too hard to be witty... MITYR is full of them.

Hodgman in his other characters look like a well tailored suit. This is Hodgman in a speedo.