I’ll admit, I zipped through What if? by Randall Munroe pretty quickly. It’s an interesting idea for a book and some of the questions Munroe answers were strangely fascinating. Unfortunately, I don’t have much patience for lengthy sciency-wiency explanations, so sometimes I would sort of drift off, or skim the answers. I definitely felt smarter when I got to the end though and I’m just waiting to show off next time someone asks me an absurd hypothetical question.
Munroe is an entertaining writer and I love xkcd. There is nothing more amusing than just clicking through or selecting “random” cartoons at the site for hours at a time. What If? satisfies that itch in a book form, just with more technical information. What more do you need to know?
I’m excited you enjoyed this, I’ve bought it for my brother in law to be for Christmas!