The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything

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The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything
by Mark Reiter, Richard Sandomir
from Bloomsbury USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Good Idea but Needs to Provide the Reader More
  This book uses a non-word for its title: [bracketologist]. To me a bracket means the punctuation I used to enclose that word. The editors instead are using it to mean a knockout tournament, the same one that is used for baseball and basketball playoffs, because the terminator at the end of the competing pair looks like a bracket. The idea is to take some topic, such as candy bars, then take a whole bunch of candy bars and put them into a tournament blank, of which the authors provide a sample. Then take... more info

• What a HIT!
  This book was by far the biggest hit on Christmas with the male adults in my family. I bought it for my Dad but by 18 year old brother and 37 year old husband kept trying to take it from him. They sat for hours reading the brackets, guessing which answer should win and then having huge discussions when they disagreed. My husband already asked for this book for his Father's Day gift and I have heard him tell at least 10 people about this book already. Definately the best purchase I made this Christmas and... more info

• Give It a Try
  The overall concept behind THE ENLIGHTENED BRACKETOLOGIST is that people can figure out the best of everything by putting together a bracketed tournament, similar to what is done during the NCAA basketball tournament. 102 different subjects are bracketed (101 are listed, but there is a bonus category of Baby Boy Names in the Coda). The bracket selections and their ultimate winners have been selected by over 90 different people and those people are usually experts or are heavily associated with their chosen... more info

• Quite Fun to Read and thought provoking
  This book inspires one to apply bracketology to just about any multi-option conundrum. Fun to read, can't necessarily agree with every one of their conclusions but that is what makes the book fascinating.

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