Book Review #6

What If?

Serious Scientific Answers To Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By Randall Munroe   Pages: 303   Book 1

Description

“What If” is a nonfiction Q&A book in which the author answers hypothetical questions with serious answers. He also adds simple stickfigure drawings with captions to make the book funnier and more entertaining in some parts of the book, such as the chapter where he covers the question “What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty?”

My Favorite Part

My favorite part of  “What If” is the question about how fast you can hit a speed bump because it probably has one of the funniest answers in the book, where at the end the book states “In the state of Pennsylvania, drivers may see $2 added to their speeding ticket for every mile per hour by which they break the speed limit. Therefore, if you drove a car over a Philadelphia speed bump at 90 percent the speed of light… you could expect a ticket of $1.14 billion.”

Why You Should Read It

You should read "What If" because it is funny, it has illustrations, and it’s long enough to last awhile, so you can read as much as you want.