brilliant and funny

will is incredible as the narrator, so funny. the content is interesting and educational too.

I recommend it to anyone.

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It’s funny and engaging

It’s funny and engaging in the same way that QI is. And it teaches people how to think about physics.

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science for the curious - fantastic

interesting and enjoyable to listen to. However, some terms are not common! Needs some explanation.

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Brilliant listen with a fantastic reader

Loved hearing Wil Wheaton reading this - it was really entertaining. Some crazy questions to think about - perhaps I need to expand my mind a little more to catch up. Really enjoyed the read - although you do need to concentrate otherwise you get lost very quickly and miss things.

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Surprisingly informative

What made the experience of listening to What If? the most enjoyable?

The absurdity of the questions threw me to start with - but I soon realised that the answers were incredibly informative and actually could have a place in the teaching of science at school. I have always been the one to point out the impossibilities of hypothesis - I now realise that was just a defence because I didn't have the knowledge to answer with the depth and openness Randall Munroe can muster.

Which character – as performed by Wil Wheaton – was your favourite?

First time I have enjoyed a performance from Will Wheaton, having struggled with him previously.

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WHAT If? :

I love this type of non fictional book. The question's pondered are many and varied. From "lf man were to disappear from earth where and approximately when would the last man made light go out" to the scale of earthquake severity the ratings end at -15 being a speck of dust lightly brushing against a surface when it Lands! The narrative is nicely done. The narrator pleasent to listen to. I would strongly recommend this Audio book to anyone liking answers to questions you never thought about asking.

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Seriously Funny...

Great to pick up and put down. This hilarious set of mostly successful attempts to answer silly questions with serious answers should not be listened to in public unless you want the world to think you are deranged.

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Seriously hilarious!

I was prepared to be entertained and educated I was both but it seemed to be a roller coaster and entertainment and the science seemed to get mixed up in a way that made it sometimes difficult to follow. At times I was laughing or thinking that is really interesting but at other times I was perplexed

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very interesting and funny

the answer to all those questions your brain torments you with in the early hours when you can't sleep.

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QI in book form

QI in book form but with citations and an actual scientist. Kind of like reading the New Scientist "Last Word" series, but with more references to Star Wars and Pokemon. Wil Wheaton is the perfect narrator for the job and he really delivers on this one. It's so important to have an enthusiastic narrator, something that was sorely lacking in Alec Sand's "The Koran" Audiobook by Trout lake Media. It is not lacking here. For those of you who don't know, this book is written by the creator of webcomic XKCD Randall Munroe, an ex roboticist and scientist from NASA who quit his full time job making space robots to draw stickmen on the internet. When dealing with something outside his field he asked old friends and colleagues from a relevant field, demonstrating the humility of a true scientist.

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