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    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    Audiobook6 hours

    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

    A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 8, 2009
    ISBN9780743598750
    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    Author

    A.J. Jacobs

    A.J. Jacobs is the editor of What It Feels Like and the author of The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis and America Off-Line. He is the senior editor of Esquire and has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, New York magazine, New York Observer, and other publications.

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      Surprised 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.