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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
medium-paced
Wouldn’t recommend reading in long sittings as can it begin to drone on.
David Mitchell has a wonderful wit and sense of humour. His collection of columns from The Observer is no exception and I found myself laughing out loud often. The downside of this collection was the time period it covered, some of these columns were well over five years old. If they were on more general topics, this would have been fine, but many are linked to political and current events that are now horrendously out of date - to the point that the inaccuracy of his opinions in retrospect makes you wonder why you're reading it. If only the inclusions had been better selected, or a better context given as to why they were selected. A shame.
funny
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reflective
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Political humor is like a caprese salad: it doesn't matter how good that salad was, give it a week and it will begin to make all the other food in the fridge smell rancid. I found all of Mitchell's articles about the British politics of the early 2010's aged like soggy basil and putrid mozzarella. Still, I enjoyed the more light-hearted articles towards the beginning and end of the book, like the ones on Japanese smart toilets and the futility of weather forecasts.
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medium-paced
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Listened to the audiobook version which was narrated by David himself. If you're a fan of his comedy then you'll love this, it's pure Michell ranting about stuff in a way only he can.
The 2019 audiobook of the book published in 2014 of articles published since 2004. Unsurprisingly some of these articles are dated.
I really enjoyed this. I know it's just a collection of things he wrote that many people have already read, but personally I don't tend to read his columns regularly and also enjoy having them all in one place. Though not really published very long ago, it is interesting to me how things have changed even since...and one might say they are worse. Anyway, if you like David Mitchell's humour, I think you will enjoy this, particularly if you don't religiously follow and read his columns.