Title: Constable Colgan’s Connect-O-Scope
Author: Stevyn Colgan
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 208
Rating: 4*/5
Stevyn Colgan – Constable Colgan’s Connect-O-Scope
Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, Stevyn Colgan is an author friend of mine.
This book was a lot of fun, although it must have been irritating for everyone around me. It’s packed full of fun facts, and they’re so interesting that you can’t stop yourself from sharing them with your friends and family. That’s probably partly due to the fact that Colgan is one of the elves on Q.I.
In this book, he builds on the work that he did in Joined-Up Thinking by carrying out a number of investigations in which he tries to connect disparate subjects through a shared set of facts. It’s hard to explain, perhaps, but it all hangs on the whole six degrees of separation thing – except Colgan applies it to facts and information instead of to movie actors and Kevin Bacon.
Overall then, this is a fantastic book if you’re into facts and stuff. You’ll learn all sorts of weird stuff and you’ll discover that the world that we live in is more interconnected than you might previously have thought. It’ll blow your mind a few times. Read it.
Stevyn Colgan
