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207 reviews for:
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell
3.34 AVERAGE
207 reviews for:
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell
3.34 AVERAGE
Drawn from his column in the Observer each week, this collection of articles is diverse and wide ranging. No subject is too big or trivial for Mitchell to consider, from smoking to politics, the nuclear question to chocolate flavoured toothpaste and swearing to Downton Abbey. He asks questions that others won’t like, why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? And why are people so obsessed with bin collections? He is not afraid to be controversial too. He agrees with the judge who called a burglar brave, has a liberated view about swearing and bemoans that total lack of common sense that seems to prevail most of the time.
Even though I get the Observer every week, I have only occasionally read his column in the paper, and I have heard him often on Radio 4 on various panel games, and he can be very funny. Whilst this book raised a few chuckles, there were no laugh out loud moments. I do like his attitude though, even if he can be a bit of a curmudgeon at times, and he has a refreshingly blunt point of view. Worth reading I think, and I will now be following his column each week in the paper.
Even though I get the Observer every week, I have only occasionally read his column in the paper, and I have heard him often on Radio 4 on various panel games, and he can be very funny. Whilst this book raised a few chuckles, there were no laugh out loud moments. I do like his attitude though, even if he can be a bit of a curmudgeon at times, and he has a refreshingly blunt point of view. Worth reading I think, and I will now be following his column each week in the paper.
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Collection of newspaper column rants from 2008 onwards. A little time capsule of news, some reactions to surveys/small studies. I did laugh in parts - I think I would prefer to read a memoir or fiction written by him rather than these snippets.
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, War
Minor: Racism, Suicide
I ended up not reading this, I really disliked it BUT the book I did read isn't on GoodReads.
A Move Too Far by R Richardson - a children's book with a hint of Enid Blyton.
A Move Too Far by R Richardson - a children's book with a hint of Enid Blyton.
Very witty as you would expect, a bit out of date now though so need to look for something more recent from him!
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I was in stitches at the audiobook introduction! Poor Henry VIII