Black Mirror - Season 2
TV Season
S2, Ep1 - Released 11 Feb. 2013 Title: Be Right Back Description: After learning about a new...
A Book for Her
Book
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted...
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Book
Comedian and radio host Sara Benincasa's life hasn't always been a funny joyride. Since childhood,...
Backing into the Spotlight: A Memoir
Book
Backing into the Spotlight is Michael Whitehall's hilarious memoir. The book covers Michael's early...
A Horse Walks into a Bar
David Grossman and Jessica Cohen
Book
The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening...
Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Book
'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was...
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America
Book
Billy Connolly - raconteur, comedian, and irrepressible wanderer - has spent much of his life in the...
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David McK (3361 KP) rated How to Survive the End of the World (When It's In Your Own Head) in Books
May 26, 2020
Written by a comedian - Aaron Gillies - I came across this when a friend recommended it in one of my WhatsApp group chats. I'm not sure why: we hadn't been discussing the subject matter, but none-the-less (and for 99p) I thought I would give it a shot. And I'm glad I did.
Whilst there are parts that were completely alien to me (and I'm not a fan of the swearing: it's not funny, it's not clever, and it's not smart), there were other parts where it felt like the author had, essentially, been riding around in my brain for the day: almost as if he and I had inhabited the same little part of this space-time continuum.
An easy read (if not an easy subject matter) and Aaron Gillies doesn't claim to hold all the answers, simply providing his experiences and what has worked for him, alongside some dark humour that actually had me laughing out loud at one or two moments in the narrative (is that the right word?).
And now with a bonus chapter on 'How to Survive a Global Pandemic" ...
To Quote Myself: A Memoir
Book
In 2015 the first edition of To Quote Myself was published and it soon became a bestseller at the...