| How To Impress Anybody: Sound Smarter Than You Are About Everything from Aerodynamics to Zen Buddhism | 
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Category: Book
Author: Leslie Hamilton
Publisher: Citadel
Studio: Citadel
Manufacturer: Citadel
Label: Citadel
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 179
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0806519851
Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9780806519852
ASIN: 0806519851
Publication Date: June 1, 2000
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Product Description
For everyone who has ever wished that he or she could get a concise, responsible, authoritative summary of the key facts that come up during parties, dinners, and marathon Trivial Pursuit sessions, researcher and freelance writer Leslie Hamilton explains it all--from Aerodynamics to Zen Buddhism.
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 Pretentious, But Fun May 4, 2005
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Words to the Wise (as the authors say)
Do not read this book so you can "fake it."
In the introduction, the authors state, "I'm certainly not advocating intellectual deception." However, the book DOES seem to promote some level of dishonesty if not outright lies. For example, in the chapter on horses, one of the suggestions for "What You Can Say" is: "Our Bernie was an Appaloosa..." - This is for some one who has never had a horse! I think if you take some of their suggestions for bluffing you will either sound like an annoying Know-It-All or be caught in your deception.
The book was a fun read, but my suggestion is this: if you are really trying to impress some one and a topic comes up about which you know nothing or very little, just admit it. You will probably impress some one more saying something like, "I don't know much about ______, but I find it interesting, what can you tell me?" then lying to people. On the other hand, if you just feel like you should know some of this stuff and don't, the book is fun, light and easy to read.
 Questionable information... April 7, 2004
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
This book is supposed to briefly educate you on typical conversation topics, to give you a working knowledge on varied subjects. It is hard to find the information credible when there are rampant spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and typos. I am not sure if it was inexpensively made and there were no editors to peruse the text before publishing it, but I say don't waste your money.
 Imperito Cognito! February 3, 2003
10 out of 87 found this review helpful
After bemusing the possible dynamics of the aforementioned literary work, there is a possible conundrum between the civilities of modern progressive ideology and past marxo-realism. This fixates itself by properly realigning the over-stated political asylums of post-regressive truism. A parallel universe then exists between confounded pluralism and unfounded singularities of cognition. This then beckons the ponderance of man's own independence of separate dualities. A sort of presupposition, if you will. To be or not to be, that is in essence all.
Great for anyone who didn't go to college November 9, 2002
28 out of 34 found this review helpful
For anyone who, like me, wasn't able to go to college and finds themselves a little clueless at parties when people start talking about politics, history and the like, this book is great. Several concepts are explained in ways that make you want to learn even more about them. The only thing I didn't like so much is the title, because it makes me feel like I have to "hide" the book because I don't want friends to see it on my bookshelf and know I'm cheating! It's not so much that I want to impress people as I don't want to sound like a complete idiot, but still, the title is good cause it caught my attention, and they DO give some great advice for how to handle yourself in a group discussion at a party, etc. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel a little more confident in discussions about cultural topics and the like.
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