Join Me - Danny Wallace

Advantages: Great story, told well
Disadvantages: We can't do it ourselves, now

...of his fellow villagers to join him in a commune on the farm. The fact that there had only been 1000 villagers was not a problem, but the whole scheme collapsed when he reached a total of three. Danny Wallace, then, decides, 60 years later, to be joined by 100 people, in tribute to the wishes of old Gallus. Not on a farm, and not even in Danny’s London flat, as that wouldn’t be big enough. Just joined in mind would be enough ~ 100 people united ...
...they had been told to Join Me. And neither did Danny. He knew one reason ~ to honour his ancestor. He also knew that if he told people that, especially after he waited around for 1000 members, they would feel betrayed, and very disappointed. The telling episode when he found the reason for people to Join Him is one of the major turning points in this excellent book, and comes only a quarter of the way in. Consider that, as we leave the rest of ... 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, compelling, excellent
Disadvantages: totally non-fiction?

...support to the text Join Me has recently been revised of which that particular copy of the text I cannot comment on but I can only presume that it includes more photographic material and has been updated following more members joining the collective. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and can only recommend it to you. The text does feature some explicit language, although this is infrequent and is just a feature of the reality of the story. More information ...
...as working with the comedian Dave Gorman in travelling the world in search of namesakes which was the subject of BBC documentary a few years ago. Join Me by Danny Wallace is published by Ebury Press/Random House and has a RRP at £9.99. www.randomhouse.co.uk www.join-me.co.uk ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderfully entertaining, a real modern-day adventure
Disadvantages: Wholly silly, not for everyone

Starting a cult has got to be difficult; starting it by accident even more so. Doing this and keeping it a secret from your suspicious girlfriend? Nearly impossible. Such is the problem Danny Wallace wrestles with throughout the course of this book - plunging further and further into trouble, but with unfailingly good intentions. Wallace was a 26-year old Londoner with a tendency to indulge in what his partner fondly referred to as 'stupid-boy projects'. ...
...great-uncle Gallus' funeral provided him with the springboard for just such an adventure. Gallus, in between tending to alpine cows and fighting wars, had dreamt of starting a commune of sorts, an idealistic community, but by the time he slipped off this mortal coil, he had amassed a grand total of three members. In Wallace's words, 'less a community, more a flatshare'. So, resolving to achieve his relative's ambitions, Wallace set out to gather ... Read review

Advantages: Addictive, totally original, funny.
Disadvantages: A long book so you can't read it all in one!

Join Me- By Danny Wallace. Danny Wallace, a legend in his own right - The author of this wonderful true story comes from the land of Dave Gorman and his fantastically pointless journey around the world to find people who have the same name of Dave Gorman. Wallace, one of his best friends and co writer of the book that followed the series, creates his own little masterpiece here by creating a mini ("It's not a cult!") "collective" from his living ...
...owners by posting messages for join me, nearly gets caught by police!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It really is a wonderful story and I haven’t even told the half of it. I must say I absolutely loved this book and basically, bought it on the spur of a moment decision which I totally rejoiced in making. I was reading it through the centre of town, in the car, on the train... everywhere just so I could find out what happened, it's that good... and I love ... Read review