Wylie Overstreet
Author of The History of the World According to Facebook
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The History of the World According to Facebook by Wylie Overstreet
Very quick read and a funny book. I laughed out loud in many places.
A clever and funny way of describing historical events from the creation of the earth right up to the modern day. This book has some hilarious moments where as others, particularly the more obscure references may need a bit of research to fully understand the joke, overall though and fun, light book to flick through for a good chuckle.
Yes, it's a one trick pony. But it made me guffaw any number of times. Overstreet has his finger on the pulse of ... well, us as hive-mind. Some of the pictures he chose to represent historical people/events were hilarious. I thought the inclusion of the odd modern bit into the historical timeline (Marty McFly, for example) was well done. Silly, fun, and worth picking up.
Just like reading a bunch of Facebook status updates, this book got annoying after a while and it was time to put it down and do something else. I'm not writing that as a bad thing, just that the author got the Facebook flavor.
The book definitely requires a knowledge of history or the willingness to look references up. The jokes aren't funny if you don't know what he's talking about.
I did find myself wondering if the specific dates he gave for some events were correct. Obviously Lincoln at Ford's Theater and JFK in Dallas were right, but I wondered about some of the more obscure references. Also, the profile pics were pretty well matched, but someone didn't do all their research. For example: the picture of Pharaoh for the Israelite's exodus from Egypt was a picture of Akenaten. Ramses II was the pharaoh of the Exodus. That bugged me.
I also thought the book could have been a little longer. With not much text on a page he could have added more historical events both past and present.
Overall I did enjoy the book, hence the 4 stars.… (more)
The book definitely requires a knowledge of history or the willingness to look references up. The jokes aren't funny if you don't know what he's talking about.
I did find myself wondering if the specific dates he gave for some events were correct. Obviously Lincoln at Ford's Theater and JFK in Dallas were right, but I wondered about some of the more obscure references. Also, the profile pics were pretty well matched, but someone didn't do all their research. For example: the picture of Pharaoh for the Israelite's exodus from Egypt was a picture of Akenaten. Ramses II was the pharaoh of the Exodus. That bugged me.
I also thought the book could have been a little longer. With not much text on a page he could have added more historical events both past and present.
Overall I did enjoy the book, hence the 4 stars.… (more)
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