Chances are, some child of mine will face-plant into some hard surface, all because I was too distracted by your anecdote about how brilliant your child is because he's writing poems at age 2. Oh, and while you're telling me this, you're not watching your kid, either.
Thunder at Twilight is the best kind of popular history, marked by brilliant character sketches, brimming with lively anecdotes, and yet treating an extremely important subject – the outbreak of the first world war – with the gravity it deserves.
He used anecdote and whimsical humour to convey the brilliant eccentricity of the Nobel laureate, as well as the very nature of translation.
Friedman's analysis of the cause of the Palestinian uprising in Israel, the intifada, is brilliant and passionate, as is his rich use of anecdote to reveal the schism in the soul of Israel.
Peddlers – Cycling's Dirty Truth, presented by Mark Chapman, was a brilliant, comprehensive look at doping in the sport, full of memorable anecdotes and phrases, and featuring several jaw-dropping moments.
In "The Oxford Book of British Political Anecdotes" (Oxford University), edited by Paul Johnson, John Maynard Keynes's portrait of Lloyd George is a brilliant piece of controlled apoplexy.
They're overheard through recorded conversations and anecdotes, visualised through digital cartoons and through the imagery of DESH's brilliant design team, and they're given physical form through the miraculous shape-shifting eloquence of Khan's own body.
In The Chicago Daily Tribune, H.L. Mencken called the book "in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that," while praising the book's "careful and brilliant finish".
