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Advantages: Hilarious!...a book to cheer you up.
Disadvantages: Cant put it down.

...few of the laughs. They are such opposite characters but they get on so well despite a few fallouts along the way. The level of obsession is ridiculus but its lots and lots of fun to read and to know it all actually happened is really quite ridiculus, i hope to god many people dont follow in Dave Gormans footsteps. Just for the matter that what would be the point no two flat mates could do what they have done and make it such a funny and heart-warming ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and entertaining
Disadvantages: None

...you get the opportunity to join a cult that does not require you to hand over all of your money but that is what Danny Wallace is offering people and in fact all you actually have to do is agree to do a good deed for someone every Friday, once a member, Friday becomes Good Friday as it is the day that you will carry out your deed. There is no great long initiation process and no need to learn countless mantras or religious dogma, all you need to ...
...Jonesy the first one to join the cult did but this is purely optional and was in fact something unique to Jonesy. Mind you in those days you were not joining a cult rather it was a collective. For those who have never heard of Danny Wallace let me explain and for those who are thinking that the name is vaguely familiar this may be because he is the former flatmate of the comic Dave Gorman who wrote a book about his own search around the world for ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and clever
Disadvantages: Could turn you into a Grumpy old Man or Woman

...and chuckling throughout, David Quantick`s Grumpy Old Men is just such a book. It seems that the majority of modern life’s obstacles annoy the grumpy old man, from pointless speed bumps to call centres in Kazakhstan; they have all been designed purely to irk and irritate. Take cats for example, the grumpy old man insists that if cats could open tins of catfood themselves they would not need humans and would like to push them all into an active volcano. ...
...Many other animals cause the grumpy old man to vent his spleen; he describes city pigeons as “airborne sewers with guano so toxic it will burn through the paintwork on your car like bird’s arse napalm” while wasps are so accurately described as “a Spivey stripy stingy cross between mosquitoes and bees which only secured their passage on Noah’s ark by stinging to death the unicorns and nicking their tickets”. “Magicians start with a kit when they’re ... Read review

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...incident behind me after reading Changing Places, one of Lodge’s earlier works, which for what it is worth won the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post fiction prize. Written in 1975, this book tells the story of two lecturers in English Literature, one English and one American, who take part in a teacher exchange scheme. Philip Swallow, journeys to the fictional location of Euphoria on the west coast of America, whilst Morris Zapp makes ...
...of character, with both men, changing in character through the experience, whilst keeping their defining characteristics; and both men discover a taste for each other’s wives. Neatly bolted onto this basic story are plot lines about student unrest and the challenge by minorities of all sorts to the establishment, which took place in the 1960s. Both campuses are beseeched by disgruntled students, wanting more power over the running of universities ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny in parts
Disadvantages: Slight Maitreya pre-occupation

...who advised him to "Say Yes More". Danny, realising that his life had become less exciting in recent times thanks to his ability to turn down invites to more or less anything, took him at face value. What follows is Danny's story of events over the months following that decision. Danny decides to become the Yes Man and say yes to anything that requires a yes or no answer. This is a pretty simple thing to do if the question to hand is "Are you coming ...
...just as well, as saying yes to everything does get pretty expensive. Much like Tony Hawks, Danny Wallace's writing style is quite relaxed and chatty and at the same time, brutally honest. There is only a single incident which he fails to reveal the full details of, although even here he does return to fill in the gaps a little later on. Generally, however, we get to hear even the events that would have caused him the greatest embarrassment, which ... Read review