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    Father Knows Less, or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions
    Father Knows Less, or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions
    Father Knows Less, or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions
    Audiobook7 hours

    Father Knows Less, or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions

    Written by Wendell Jamieson

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    A New York Times editor sets out to answer the peculiarly marvelous questions of his precocious young son-and winds up on an unexpected journey of his own.

    Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for...odd questions. "Dad," he asked, apropos of nothing, "what would hurt more-getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?" "Dad, why do policemen like donuts?" "What's it feel like to get stabbed?" "Does Mona Lisa wear shoes?" "Can I cook my sister?"

    Because "Dad" was a newspaperman, he decided to seek out answers-and got swept up in the hunt. He spoke to movie directors and ship captains and brain surgeons and stabbing victims and lottery winners and museum curators and politicians and judges and compulsive shoppers and mothers-in-law and magicians-even Yoko Ono and a dominatrix.

    But what began as a lark quickly grew into something larger. Blending a charming father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, Father Knows Less offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 15, 2007
    ISBN9781400175581
    Father Knows Less, or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions

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    • 3/5
      "Why is the sky blue?" "Were Tyrannasaurus Rexes mean?" Kids ask a lot of questions. This book sets out to answer them. Divided into chapters by roughly by subject matter, this book covers questions about linguistics, sex, biology, physics, and more. While most questions are drawn from the author's own children and friends' children, some are posed by children whose parents found their way to his website. A book like this runs the risk of preciousness (awwww, look at those cute things kids ask) and I can't say that the author avoided it. I do appreciate, however, that he didn't talk down to the kids, and went straight to the Experts. The author didn't shirk on experts, either, but lined up an impressive array of academics and policymakers who, in turn, didn't talk down either. The main weakness of the book was the personal essays used to link each chapter to one another. While I appreciated the author trying to create a narrative link, I found them rather dull and self indulgent. The exception was the epilogue, which provided some necessary thoughtfulness and gravity. All in all, this was a somewhat weightier "bathroom book". Easy, accessible snippets to be picked up and put down and not thought about in between reads.