Adrian van der Merwe

Some unintentional laughs

Revisado: 08-23-21

There are lots of really strange pauses and mispronunciation in the delivery, though not enough to ruin the book. My absolute favourite reading faux pas was reading "Kim Il Sung" as "Kim Second Son" But on the whole, these are all relatively minor.

As for the book itself. First thing, be warned, there are a number of repeats of facts. I couldn't say how many without a electronic copy of the book and lots of spare time on my hands.

While listening I heard a number of possible mistakes, some of which I checked out. So here are some "spoilers". Let's start with a nit-picky one: Greek statues actually are white. While they were colourful originally, they are white now.

Further:
* Humans do NOT only use 10% of their brains.
* It is NOT illegal to die in the British houses of parliament.
* Brazil DOESN'T have a national animal so it can’t be the Jaguar. Many websites do give the Jaguar as the national animal, but it does appear to not be true.

I was most amused by 2 things. The reference to Buzz Aldrin's maiden name, as opposed to his mother's maiden name. And saving the best for last: talking about a place named "Cape South Town Africa" Perhaps "Cape Town, South Africa"?

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However, it turns out that…

Revisado: 07-18-21

Other than one or two mistakes, the facts are interesting and informative. However, it turns out that Australia and Italy don’t share a border and that Princess Anastasia didn’t take the first ever selfie. It seems that this book needed a bit of an edit, some proofreading and fact checking. If you thought that I checked all of the facts, you would be wrong.

My only real gripe is the ENDLESS use of phrases like “it seems that”, “it turns out that” and “it appears that”. And I do mean endless. A runner up for overused phrase would be “if you thought that, you would be wrong”

The narration was good and the narrator made the book his own in his reading

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Mostly good

Revisado: 06-20-21

The facts were read very quickly as if the narrator has some else where to be. But pretty good overall. I did hear a few duplicates and one or two mistakes. Nothing too bad, though I wish I’d write them down, but as I listened when a pen was out of reach…

What I remember is saying 300 feet was 1 kilometre (it’s about 100 metres). Also copyright in “Happy Birthday” no longer exists in the US or Europe.

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