Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • The Areas of My Expertise

  • An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order
  • By: John Hodgman
  • Narrated by: John Hodgman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
Get this deal Try for £0.00
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
The Areas of My Expertise cover art

The Areas of My Expertise

By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

 More Information Than You Require cover art
That Is All cover art
Vacationland cover art
Unfamiliar Fishes cover art
Year Zero cover art
Pride and Prejudice cover art
William Shakespeare's Star Wars cover art
Caverns and Creatures: Volume I (Books 1-4) cover art
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland cover art
How I Slept My Way to the Middle cover art
Cryptonomicon cover art
The Very First Damned Thing cover art
The B-Team cover art
By Order of the President cover art
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them cover art
Slaughterhouse-Five cover art

Summary

In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although best sellers such as Poor Richard's Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman, which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up.
©2005 John Hodgman (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Literature & Fiction Entertainment & Celebrities Satire Useful Knowledge
Show More Show Less

Critic reviews

"Wonderfully absurd." (The New York Times)

"Hilarious ... Nabokov's Pale Fire as directed by Wes Anderson." (Time Out New York)

"If Borges and Ben Franklin got drunk and decided to write a book together, the result might have been something a lot like this freaky 'almanac.'" (Tom Perrotta)

What listeners say about The Areas of My Expertise

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    2

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for K. J. Walker

Hilarious

Impossible to listen to while travelling due to the many laugh out load moments. Complete non sense but delivered in a clipped terse authoritative manner by the author, with able equally silly musical accompaniment.

very funny.

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!