Friends Like These

Pretty much disappointed with this one. Yes Man and Join Me were '5*' excellent and so I was quick to buy this latest offering but I'm pretty much disappointed. There's no doubt that there are a few gems hidden away in here but not enough to make me want to keep turning the pages. Like another review, I too was about to give up after a couple of hundred pages but continued on. Once I finished each chapter, I just wasn't interested in reading the next. It was a struggle with too many names of 'characters' thrown into the book to keep up with. I like a page turner and this isn't one of them. Saying that, if you just need a book to pick up and read when you have a little time to spare, then this could be just what you need.

A enjoyable way of re-connecting with old friends (0/0 people found this helpful)

It you have read a Danny Wallace book before then this book is exactly what you would expect from him, funny, witty and enjoyable.
In 2006 Danny was about to turn 30 and was still trying to hang on to his youth, like most people do who are about to become that age.
One day he collected an old box from his parents and discovered an old address book with 12 names of his friends from his school days.
Danny decided to attempt to make contact with these 12 old friends in all manor of ways available to him, including using the Internet, writing letters to old addresses and dressing up in a rabbit to get back at an old friend.
Danny's journey includes trips around England, Australia, America, Japan and Germany.
The resulting journey is a full of fun, joy, pain, understanding and a celebration of friendships rediscovered.
The book is very thought provoking and makes you wonder what would happen if you yourself decided to take up the same challenge as Danny did.
By the end I didn't find the book to be quite as funny as Yes Man the first Danny Wallace book I read but it was still a very entertaining read.

Dissappointing!! (0/1 people found this helpful)

I almost set it down after 200 pages. But I decided NO... it will get better. It didnt, just rumbled on at the same old speed. Davina McCall describes Danny Wallace to be a genius- O dear, please.
NOT FUNNY!

A joy from start to finish (0/0 people found this helpful)

As you would expect from Danny Wallace there is some genuine hysteria here - reminiscing about an unfortunate man whose name was a dreadful variation on `Hitler', impersonating a `furry', making sense of German rap lyrics and general Michael Jackson memories from childhood all had me sniggering, both as I was reading and at various points afterwards.

What I wasn't expecting though was quite how poignant it was at times. There's a few really touching moments, both in terms of what the author finds out during in his `project' and how it's handled in the book. It isn't just a series of funny incidents - it's real, it doesn't always go smoothly, and it asks some pretty deep questions about lost friendships, life and growing up.

Overall though it's just such a brilliantly positive story - a joy in fact.

At must if you are around the 30 mark! (0/0 people found this helpful)

You will laugh out loud and you will warm to this writer from the start! It brings back memories of your childhood and all the sweets, TV shows and characters that go with it. I haven't read his other books but I will be buying them right away, and recommending this one to all my friends. Danny Wallace may seem a bit odd when you see him on the telly but this book gets you to the heart of a guy who is naturally very funny.

Danny Wallace

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