2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd.

This is number seven, the largest and last in the QI Facts Series of books. It follows a popular British television programme called QI.

I am not a fan of the television programme but picked up a copy of this book because it was featured on the Kindle Daily Deal for just 99p. I hoped it would be an interesting read and that I would discover some unusual facts.

I quite liked the format of this book. The 2,024 facts are just a sentence long. If you want background information to a specific fact, then go to the website, put in the page number and a source page will appear. This means the reader can cover all the facts and not be bored with detail they have little or no interest in. I think this was the right publishing decision, otherwise many readers would not finish this book.

I found most of the facts interesting but a lot of them were obvious if you gave the issue a fair amount of thought. Some of the facts were simple trivia and others made me feel “so what?”. 

I did not find this book engrossing. Reading these one sentence facts is fine for a handful of pages but I could not engage with this book like I do with crime/mystery/thriller novels. My reading experience was like watching the adverts broadcast on commercial television. When I finished a regular novel, I would read a small number of pages from this book before progressing onto my next novel.

I consider 2,024 QI Facts to be a coffee-table book. It is an OKAY 3 star read that is fine to pick up for around 15 minutes once a week. I feel it is a book to browse rather than read. It will give you the same pleasure of resolving your curiosity as wading through the Argos catalogue. I am glad I got a copy of this book for just 99p but if I had paid the usual price of £4.68p then I would be very disappointed.

Of the 2,024 one sentence facts, here are the 3 facts I found the most interesting and unusual…

Scurryfunge is to tidy up quickly before visitors arrive.

The hands of a human foetus touching the walls of the womb causes the fingerprints to form.

A pluviophile is someone who loves rainy days.

2,024 QI Facts is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2018.