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I have purchased every Randall Munroe book available for my husband, yet never read one myself until now. I’m so sad over the joy I’ve unknowingly deprived myself! This is a book of answered questions; The kind of questions which can only be asked by the mind of a child- before we age and begin calling that kind of magical thinking “ridiculous.” Munroe answers each one using logic, math, science, and tons of research in a manner that is engaging and fun. The diagrams are charming and hilarious.
Cannot wait! I've read the first one so many times :)
ALL RIGHT, RANDALL. There better be a hypothetical answer in here about a t-rex on top of a plane because I'm still burned from there being NO SARLACC in the first book, despite the promise on the cover of the book. That is all.
***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***What If? 2 gives us exactly what we wanted: ridiculous questions answered (somewhat) seriously. Hilarious and baffling!
Another exploration of bizarre questions. Munroe, known for the webcomic xkcd, takes all of the questions seriously and explains exactly how badly things would go if you tried to--drive to the end of the known universecatch a spent bullet in your bare handput a house-sized Jupiter down in your neighborhooddrink a cloudbuild a billion-story skyscraper--to name just a few of the questions he tackles with humor and rigorously worked-out science. Line drawings add to the fun.Not a book to read strai...
