You Dont Want to Know, James Felton
You Dont Want to Know, James Felton
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You Don't Want to Know
The grisly, jaw-dropping and most macabre moments from history, nature and beyond

Author: James Felton

Narrator: James Buckley

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2021


Synopsis

Read by James Buckley aka unforgettable Jay from The Inbetweeners'

With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.

Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then you've come to the right place!

Within these pages you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history, nature and science that you don't want to know. (Except secretly you really do you masochistic, beastly person you.) Illustrated, painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won't be able to stop reading once you start.

*To aid childbirth.
**They exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings.
***Decency prevents us from answering this one here. You'll have to buy the book to find out.

About James Felton

James Felton is a writer and journalist, whose articles regularly appear in the Guardian, Independent, Daily Mash and IFL Science. As a writer for television, his work includes the BAFTA award-winning The Dog Ate My Homework. His books 52 Times Britain was a Bellend, Sunburn and You Don't Want to Know have between them sold over 125,000 copies. He has over 330,000 followers on Twitter and routinely goes viral.


Reviews

This is pretty much the perfect Christmas read, ideal for dipping into during those quiet moments over the festive season. The stories dotted from across history range from bizarre to amusing to downright alarming at times, all relayed with such wit and warmth. I don't think I'll ever look at a peng......more

2.5 stars Many of the stories were interesting, but I don't like the conversational tone that tried to be current and funny. I would have preferred a more neutral style.......more

Goodreads review by Kersi

Pretty interesting historical side facts. Still, the writing style was sometimes quite annoying.........more

Goodreads review by Land

It's about what you'd expect from a Christmas gift book, really. In fact, in one of the chapters the author even acknowledges that the reader probably received the book as a Christmas gift. I loved this book, though, it's a great laugh. The author has a very sardonic wit and although he covers the k......more

Goodreads review by Ramón

Una serie de historias más o menos dantescas, grotescas o absurdas sobre costumbres pasadas como los juicios medievales por masturbación, accidentes horribles o fenómenos estrambóticos. Ameno, y he sacado material para añadir a alguna charla.......more