The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

By The Onion,

Book cover of The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Information

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Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and…

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1 author picked The Onion Book of Known Knowledge as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is one of those books you can open to any page and immediately start laughing. It resembles an encyclopedia but every given subject is shredded with wit and insight. Personally, I’m eternally grateful to the folks at The Onion for trying to keep up with the organically occurring absurdity in modern life that now has rendered most satire obsolete. It must be a whole lot like dogpaddling. In Jell-O. In the dead of winter.

From David's list on absurdity.

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