"A slender, unassuming volume [that] houses ephemera and exotica... a 159-page nest of novel nuggets... the Miscellany also takes abundant joy in the secret histories, untapped talents, and shape-shifting prowess of language itself — just like a proper book"
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"Ever wonder how to say 'I love you' in Hindi? Whether blondes win more often than brunettes in the Miss America pageant? The answers lie in Schott's Original Miscellany. Part encyclopedia, part anthology, part lexicon, the book is a collection of inconsequential tidbits that you never knew, never thought to ask, but will love knowing. As hilarious as it is addictive."

"The best ever collection of essential trivia. Everybody should get one for Christmas.
Bless you for Schott's Original Miscellany!"

"I'm going to get this for a lot of people — it's fantastic... a gift and a half"

"Originality is like charisma. It's hard to define, but we know it when we find it... Schott's Original Miscellany is without doubt the oddest, and possibly merriest, title you will come across in a long day's march through the shimmering desert of contemporary publishing... I imagine Schott living in a tree, designing his own clothes, growing vegetables and, perhaps, running an old jalopy powered by the gas from his Berkshires."
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"The most idiosyncratic volume I have come across in years and the perfect book for anyone who sucks up facts like Thanksgiving gravy... a compendium of oddments, page on page of lists, factoids, quotes, diagrams and calendars. All helter-skelter, with no obvious plan or organization. That's what makes it addictive... every book has a target audience, and, apparently, the target audience is me. I can't get enough of it."

"This bizarre little book manages to be both totally useless and nearly indispensable"

"The publishing sensation of the year"



"It has its useful aspects, but its chief pleasure is for browsing... filled with diverting tips and winningly fatuous lists... essentially, inessential. Nobody needs to know, for example, that the quantity of beauty required to launch a single ship is one Milli-Helen — but it is, none the less, a nice thing to learn"
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"Maddeningly addictive... a cornucopia of trivia, a smorgasbord of stuff... 160 pages pebble dashed with facts, figures, ruminations, clarifications and charts: as if Schott mistakenly put the entire history of everything in with his washing"
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"The best little book of trivia going"