The Duck That Won the Lottery: 100 New Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher Paperback – April 28, 2009

Julian Baggini's overall performance on writing The Duck Who Won The Lottery is amazing. Baggini wrote this book in such fashion that no one would ever expect. Baggini uses 100 different fallacies in which he criticizes in a professor setting but using humor at the same time to twist your brain right out of your head. With him using a humorous tone it makes the book that more appealing to readers. Whether your choice is to use this as an everyday book to read or using it as toliet material, its a great book of choice. Baggini expresses in his writings in this book in which he thinks is the proper way of how things should be dealt with. Julian himself states that in this book there could fallacies as well, stating he is not perfect himself. Everyone in this world could be a critic, but Baggini does his is such fashion that makes him hard not to like. The only weakeness of this book I would have to say that at some times he seems very opinionated, which in reality, its a book of opinions. With the way Baggini presents this book it is hard not to like what he offers, his humor made this book what it is today. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a brain twister with nothing but the truth and humor. The best part is how he gives both sides on every fallacy, so its not leaving you thinking that he only criticizes people one way. He gives you both sides with vivid description and detail. Julian Baggini's material in this book is great, and overall I thought this was an excellent choice for him to write.

MUST READ! Say what you mean and mean what you say. This book helps you detect a bad arguement the moment it is spoken. It gives a perspective of everyday situations of people from all walks of life and the arguments they are trying to prove. Fallacies are errors in reasoning, that often seems valid to many people. Julian Baggini points out the fallies related to the arguments. This is an easy book to read, one story at a time relating to issues of foreign policy, social issues and just everyday nonsense that we all come across in our lives on a daily basis. It makes you think of what is the truth and who should be held accoutable for not telling the truth.

This is book is a really good book and easy to follow, I liked the author's sense of humor in presenting his thoughts and at the same time conveying a helpful message. The book has 100 entry; each one talks about a different example of a bad arguement or fallacy. It really helps the reader learn how to catch a bad argument. He also relates political issues to everyday life experiences and that makes it applicable to use what you are reading in your own life. It teaches valuable lessons about the world, my favorite was about wishful thinking and people justifying their actions by saying that "if i didnt do it, someone else would've done it". from that I learned that I should be positive even if everything around me is corrupted. Yes, it's hard sometimes to think that I can change the whole world by a small action, but at least I'll be satisfied with my own actions. I would recommend that book to anyone who wants to look at the world and people's thoughts deeply.

The bulk of the examples talk about war. I have very little interest in the topic of military conflict, and I don’t actively seek out news related to such, so reading about people’s war arguments was rather dull. Also, war is a pretty extreme topic that I don’t think many people will find themselves debating, but some of the examples seemed limited in terms of their applicability to other points of conversation.I think a lot of the flaws had excessive overlap, or were mere variations of one another. This book could probably be cut in half, making it more concise and impactful.I like the formatting of this book more than “The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten.” But that’s partly because of the more Americanized spelling and punctuation (although I did see one “sceptical” instead of “skeptical”).Probably my favorite part of the book is the paragraph at the end of every chapter, when the author plays devil’s advocate. I think the closing paragraphs are consistently short, sweet, and thought provoking.There were several argument examples throughout the book that I thought were very insightful. Those were the ones where the flaw wasn’t immediately obvious, or where I thought the argument was more secure than it actually was. It became a fun little game, reading the opening quotation and trying to guess what the flaw would be.

Ya lo había leído, pero me apetecía tenerlo. Es un libro muy ameno, dividido en capítulos que lo hacen sencillo de leer, y que hace pensar acerca de las falacias. Muy recomendable