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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330453738
ISBN: 0330453734
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Publication Date: November 02, 2007
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador
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A poor man's Louis Theroux...that's the best way to describe Jon Ronson. A feather-light Louis Theroux. It''s the old formula: find an eccentric or strange place/person/belief system; interview the personalities; repeat that you don't understand the place/person/beliefs etc..etc...and wrap it all up in light satire.
Except that he isn't very funny or never goes in for the kill. Ronson's just so subtle in his approach that he never really makes a mark or finds out anything substantial. ... Read More
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Not being an avid Guardian reader I was not that familiar with Jon Ronson's column and articles for the paper and had I not been given 'What I Do' as a present I doubt I would have bought it. As it was I found it to be an amusing read but nothing much more than that.
The first half of the book, which reprints a number of his colums from the paper detailing the everyday neuroses that he is afflicted with, come across as part confessional blog and part a lightweight version of Larry David's ... Read More
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Simply the most fun I have had reading a book in a long time, I am regularly to be seen laughing out loud while reading about Jon's somewhat neurotic (yet very normal) everyday life and his encounters with his neighbours, waiters, security guards and "celebs"
Highly recommended
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