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Friends Like These by: Danny Wallace List Price: £11.99 City Travel Guides Price: £7.19 You Save: £4.80 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780091896768 ISBN: 0091896762 Label: Ebury Press Manufacturer: Ebury Press Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: July 03, 2008 Publisher: Ebury Press Studio: Ebury Press Sales Rank: 95 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Ever wondered "whatever happened to..?". Then read this book.Are you a man around the age of 29? Are you having a strange urge to find out what your old friends from school are up to, and are you worried that it's the beginning of turning 30-something? Well, me too. But now there's no need- you can just read this book instead. Danny Wallace has already done all that, in 2007, and his story is much better than yours, or mine. Danny goes in search of friends, mainly from primary school, with a very loose premise of 'updating his address book', an address book he's found in a box of old school stuff his Mum kept, though this is just an excuse for a trip down memory lane. He ends up in L.A., in Japan, in Germany, and around many places in the UK doing all the tracking-down and catching ... Read More: Rating:  - I'd Like a Friend Like ThisYou cannot fault the unfailing optimism that coats the stories told by this guy. They just make you feel that little bit better. Outrageously positive, thoughtful and very, very, funny, Danny Wallace decides to track down the twelve names he discovers in his old school address book. His journey's take him from Berlin to Loughborough to L.A. and every tale is told with such a lightness of heart that you feel that you are right there with him. The theme is not disimilar to Wallace's last book, 'Yes Man', but it is a formula that works- he obviously believes that if it aint broke, don't fix it: hilarious anecdotes about hope over varying degrees of adversity will always make for a great read. This book might not ... Read More: Rating: - Great BookI have just finished Friends Like This. I loved it, I laughed out loud, chuckled to myself and cried. It's the first book of Danny's I have read. I will certainly be reading more. Rating: - So funny, so true.Having been a fan of Wallace's writing since reading 'Are You Dave Gorman?' (of which he wrote half) I planned to buy this book before hearing what it was about. When I found out it was about a man facing up to the inevitability of his 30th birthday it just seemed even more right to buy it - I will face that challenge myself in a few months. Unlike Wallace's previous (excellent) books this story of looking up old friends is a more relateble tale we can all see ourselves reflected in - anyone who ever went on Facebook etc has done it - Wallace just does it with style! I wont spell out the specifics of his journey, suffice to say that I laughed out loud several times but was also moved by the more serious heart-felt passages. And ... Read More: Rating: - Another great readAnother great read from Danny Wallace. Amusing and insightful without becoming too soppy. I even laughed out loud a few times. |
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