The full title reads: For Your Consideration, The Firms of Dutton & Riverhead Books Present in the English Language: A Further Compendium of Complete World Knowledge in "The Areas Of My Expertise," Assembled and Illumined by Me, John Hodgman, A Famous Minor Television Personality, Offering More Information Than You Require On Subjects as Diverse as: The Past (as There Is Always More of It), The Future (as There Is Still Some Left), All of the Presidents of the United States, The Secrets of Hollywood, Gambling, The Sport of the Asthmatic Man (Including: Hermit-Crab Racing), Strange Encounters with Aliens, How to Buy a Computer, How to Cook an Owl, and Most Other SubjectsMore Information Than You Require is the second part of a trilogy, concluding with That Is All in 2011.

[1] The cover features John Hodgman holding a ferret, a reference to one of the "long cons" from The Areas of My Expertise.

The now-defunct Express called it an "enjoyable" follow-up to The Areas of My Expertise.

[2] Other reviewers positively noted the book's "bizarre"[3][4] sense of humor.

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