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The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs (2009, Hardcover) 
The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs (2009, Hardcover)

 
The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs (2009, Hardcover)

Author: A. J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2009-09-08
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1416599061
ISBN-13: 9781416599067
Product ID: EPID71663103
Description: A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provid...
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Synopsis
A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India. He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty, in which you say what's on your mind. He goes to the Academy Awards disguised as a movie star, to understand the strange and warping effects of fame. He commits himself to ultimate rationality, using cutting-edge science to make the best decisions possible. He attempts to follow George Washington's rules of life. And, for a month, he followed his wife's every whim.--From publisher description.

Details
Publication Date:2009-09-08

Size
Length:236 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The best-selling memoirist of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically describes his experiments with a variety of activities from going undercover as a woman and outsourcing to India to saying whatever is on his mind and embarking on public nudity.

Industry Reviews
"Jacobs...could be the funniest nonfiction writer this side of Bill Bryson....[His] storytelling is lighthearted and frequently laugh-out-loud funny....There aren't a lot of nonfiction books you want to read over and over, but this is certainly one of them." (starred review)
(07/01/2009)

"The nine stories reveal an everyman who is willing to try just about anything and doesn't even try to gloss over his foibles. Witty self-deprecation is Jacobs' bread, butter and jam, and his attempts to correct (or at least confront) his flaws drive the action."
(09/27/2009)

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