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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell
3.34 AVERAGE
201 reviews for:
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell
3.34 AVERAGE
Funny enough that I laughed out loud at times. Probably lends itself better to print over audiobook as the transitions between editorials were nonexistent and left your head spinning but otherwise very funny. It would have been a timely read when it came out but now is sadly out of date but provides a strange bit of nostalgia for a pre-covid world.
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Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse by David Mitchell is quite possibly the worst book I’ve read this year, although maybe not quite as bad as that Whistleblower book that made me want to strangle the protagonist.
I wanted to read this book because I immediately thought I’d get some laughs but mostly I got eye ache from rolling them too much. I honestly don’t even know where to start here, it wasn’t as if the entire book was awful. Half the book was terribly dated because he’d written it years ago but he tries to get around his laziness, where he should have written or updated it, by throwing in really bad italicised comments. They’re along the lines of “look how wrong I was, I’m hilarious”.
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I wanted to read this book because I immediately thought I’d get some laughs but mostly I got eye ache from rolling them too much. I honestly don’t even know where to start here, it wasn’t as if the entire book was awful. Half the book was terribly dated because he’d written it years ago but he tries to get around his laziness, where he should have written or updated it, by throwing in really bad italicised comments. They’re along the lines of “look how wrong I was, I’m hilarious”.
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I initially ended up buying this book, mostly due to the fact that David Mitchell was doing a book signing at my local Waterstones. I kind of felt obliged to go, as I had previously bought tickets to what I thought was this David Mitchell doing an author event at Blackwell's only to find out it was the other, less funny David Mitchell. And when one goes to a book signing, you sort of have to have a book to sign. Anyway, the book if you didn't know already, is a collection of newspaper columns, but grouped together in similar sort of subjects. Some were hilarious, some made me chuckle silently to myself or nod in agreement and some were a bit dull. But overall, worth the effort, especially if you don't read his column as then it's all new material for you
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Listened to the audiobook which was ... interesting. Maybe I should have read it as a book. (I can only listen to posh and repressed rants for so long :P)