You Don't Want to Know

By: James Felton

Narrated by: James Buckley

Read by James Buckley a.k.a. 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!

Here 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.) Painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won't be able to stop listening to 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.

©2021 James Felton (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK

You Do (n’t) Want to Know

If you like random fun facts and British accents, this book is for you! Fun, good natured book with an entertaining narrator.

got a sense of humor and like facts

books fucking bomb , anyone who says otherwise is full for sh!t. no lies just facts , like this book!

Great

There are so many of these facts I had never heard. They should be known! So funny and I really liked the narration.

very funny

This book is hilarious and all the better to be read by a British narrator. Many times have I almost choked on my water as I listened. Defiantly not for everyone but if you enjoy crass humor give it a go.

That guy in the bar who knows everything about everything.

I thought this was a cool concept and was hopeful for a captivating, funny read. I can enjoy crass humor like anyone else, but I mostly found myself uninterested and salivating for more quippy language. Quoting buzzfeed interviews loses cool points with me and makes this feel like a really long pop culture magazine article. The combination of these things made me feel like I was just trapped at the bar by the guy who is a few beers deep and likes to impress with “maybe” credible “facts”. Loved the narrator.

Entertaining for a moment

At first this book was entertaining, but as it dragged on, the asides and editorial insertions became repetitive and obnoxious. These stories feel like they are being told by the witty loud guy in the corner of an office party.