The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Written by A. J. Jacobs
Narrated by A. J. Jacobs
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About this audiobook
One man. Ten extraordinary quests.
Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes undercover as a woman, lives by George Washington’s moral code, and impersonates a movie star. He practices "radical honesty," brushes his teeth with the world’s most rational toothpaste, and outsources every part of his life to India—including reading bedtime stories to his kids.
And in a new adventure, Jacobs undergoes scientific testing to determine how he can put his wife through these and other life-altering experiments—one of which involves public nudity.
Filled with humor and wisdom, My Life as an Experiment will immerse you in eye-opening situations and change the way you think about the big issues of our time—from love and work to national politics and breakfast cereal.
A. J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs is the author of Thanks a Thousand, It’s All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com and follow him on Twitter @ajjacobs.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Surprised me. I listened to his other book on living healthy, which I found fascinating. And I look forward to reading the author's book on reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. But this book I found incredibly boring, like he took a bunch of overly long newspaper columns and strung them together with no theme, 'just' to make money as a writer. Not horrible, just not compelling. In fact a lot of the chapters I just forwarded to the next chapter.