Review: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Are you a knowledge junkie? Do you your friends fight over who gets you as a partner during games of Trivial Pursuit? Well, then Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets, which is chock full of random knowledge, is just the sort of book you will enjoy. It will also get you ready for those erudite cocktail party conversations. Thank heavens for the editors from mental_floss! I should warn you that this book is not just one of those dry recitations of fact after fact. Oh, no. The editors tackle everything from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf, and somehow manage to make the topics interesting and often giggle-worthy. Each topic features information about the name of the topic (For example: The Hundred Years’ War, which actually lasted for 116 years), “When to drop your knowledge” into conversation, the basics (basic information about the topic), and bits of connected trivia. As you have no doubt gathered, I loved this book. I wish that all history texts were written like this! I fully plan to seek out other mental_floss publications just to see if they are of a similar quality (I already subscribe to the magazine). So, there you are. I loved it. Yes, I am a knowledge junkie. How could you tell?
