The QI Book of the Dead

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The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life^
What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of five and a half dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure.
The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have.
The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe* throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as There's... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life^
What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of five and a half dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure.
The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have.
The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe* throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as There's Nothing like a Bad Start in Life', 'Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone' and 'Is That All There Is?' here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead, to celebrate their wisdom, to learn from their mistakes, and to marvel at their bad taste in clothes.
The one who is not dead still has a chance. LEBANESE PROVERB
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QI first aired on BBC2 in September 2003 with John Lloyd producing and John Mitchinson in charge of the research.
John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock Nem, Sl)itting Image and Blackadder. Like the philosopher William James, he thinks there are only three important things in life: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.'
John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstonc's, he became Managing Director of Ciisscll, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. He's with Einstein: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as thoutih everything is a miracle.'
SEVEN QUITE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THE FAMOUS DEAD
Hans Christian Andersen was terrified of naked women, of being buried alive and of sailing.
Half the population of Philadelphia turned out for Benjamin Franklin's funeral in 1790.
Before he started studying sex, Alfred Kinsey was the world's leading expert on gall wasps.
Florence Nightingale spent the last fifty years of her life in bed.
When Oliver Cromwell was a baby, he was abducted by his grandfather's pet monkey.
Ignacz Trebitsch Lincoln, Liberal MP for Darlington, was Jewish, a Nazi spy and a Buddhist monk.
The only love interest in the life of Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio, was a female pigeon. Vissza