The Resource Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life, David Mitchell
Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life, David Mitchell
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The item Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life, David Mitchell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Why is my jumper depreciating? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film and TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant on perpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life - Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, Poundland to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense - drawn from Mitchell's Observer columns and including new material - Thinking About it Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 326 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781783350698
- Label
- Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life
- Title
- Thinking about it only makes it worse
- Title remainder
- and other lessons from modern life
- Statement of responsibility
- David Mitchell
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Why is my jumper depreciating? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film and TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant on perpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life - Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, Poundland to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense - drawn from Mitchell's Observer columns and including new material - Thinking About it Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mitchell, David
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- humor satires etc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English wit and humour
- Satire, English
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life, David Mitchell
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000053509608
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9781783350698
- Label
- Thinking about it only makes it worse : and other lessons from modern life, David Mitchell
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000053509608
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9781783350698
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