I noticed this book at a bookstore and was immediately enticed. A book claiming to teach you how to do everything? Sounds perfect right? Who wouldn't want to know how to be a trophy wife, respond to homophobic comments and make a rakhi (what's a rakhi)? This book by eHow is a delightful read and after flipping through several pages, found myself entranced by the hilarious content. Whilst it is assumed that this book is an instruction guide to completing many tasks, the way it is written does not reflect the aims and I found it rather comedic overall opposed to serious. Even the disclaimers about following the book and taking own precautions was rather ...  Read the complete review

How do you know whether or not you should trust a book that claims to tell you how to do everything? You look for the things you already have specialist knowledge about and you see how the book marks up. Unfortunately, as a true knowledge guide not many of the articles are really applicable or accurate enough to be quoted for truth. For example, the short piece on 'Upgrading your computer's RAM' advises you to 'Find out the speed of the RAM' in nanoseconds! Aswell as finding out whether or not the RAM is 'parity or non-parity'. There is no way an article in bullet-point form with THIS kind of curveball advice deserves to be called a how-to. If I was to do this ...  Read the complete review