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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
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THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED COMIC WRITERS**Pre-order David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy**There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them?Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious modern world.'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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“Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse and Other Lessons from Modern Life is a tongue‑in‑cheek snapshot of a pre‑COVID Britain, exactly what you’d expect from David Mitchell. As it was a charity shop pick up I'm reading it more than a decade after its original release, and as the first of his books I’ve picked up, it’s made me want to dive into the rest of his work.
The book is a selection of his Observer newspaper columns from roughly 2008 to 2014, which means he’s commenting on UK politics, media culture, social habits, early‑smartphone technology, and the general absurdities of British life that happened to take place during my late‑teens to early‑twenties, so the references land with a surprising amount of nostalgia. The good old days of Horse meat lasagna, Jimmy Savile being exposed, the credit crunch, big brands changing there names/logos, x-factor, Disney buying the rights to Star Wars, the death of ceefax... Well they were okay at best and not too long ago days.”
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