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About this book
THE
SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED COMIC WRITERS
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Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy**
There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian
David Mitchell, such as:
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Taking Offence, Demanding Apologies, Making People Do Things and Stopping People Doing Things: A Guide to Modern Hobbies
- 2: Just Turn On Your Television Set and Stay In and Do Something More Boring Instead
- 3: Don’t Expect Too Much of Robots
- 4: Saying You Want to Make a Difference Makes No Difference
- 5: It’s Not Just Poets That Need Abstract Nouns
- 6: What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You
- 7: A Sorry State is Nothing to Apologise For
- 8: Some Things Change and Some Things Stay the Same – and That’s One of the Things That Stays the Same
- 9: Horrible, Horrible Progress
- Appendix: The Future – A Retrospective
- Acknowledgments
- Post-credit Sequence
- List of Columns
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright