Don't Know Much About Anything

Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About People, Places, Events, And More!

By: Kenneth C. Davis, Kenneth C. Davis - introduction

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Entertainment and More! is a compendium of around 275 columns, sorted into the subject categories listed in the subtitle. Quizzes on the atomic bomb, hamburgers, football, and The Wizard of Oz are included, along with the Emancipation Proclamation, cold weather, and Mother Theresa, to name a few.

Like all of Ken Davis' Don't Know Much About audiobooks, Don't Know Much About Anything will educate and inform listeners while allowing them to have fun.©2007 Kenneth C. Davis; (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Good fun

A good listen and lots of fun, though I must say I have heard most of the facts presented in this audio books and unfortunately, out of the five hours of the book, only some of the facts were especially interesting.

The Title Says It All

Sadly, the author does not know much about a lot of subjects but instead of researching them to find out, he just dishes out the same incorrect nonsense you learned in junior high regarding such subjects as Abraham Lincoln and the OPEC oil embargo. His lack of any sort of practical knowledge of economics prevents him from providing the listener with any usable insight on important topics. I had to turn it off after he attributed the gas shortage and subsequent long lines at the pump in the early 1970's to the oil embargo and made no mention of Nixon's price controls.

Unlistenable

No organization or direction. Biographies of andom historical figures presented in Q&A format....at least for the first 20 minutes because that was all I could stand to hear. Please listen to the sample before purchasing. If I had done so, I would not have wasted a monthly credit on this compilation of biographical cliff notes.