Dec 17, 2011 Posted in Fun and Inspiration, Random Thoughts

New Danny Wallace Book Out

If you’ve never heard of Danny Wallace before, shame on you.  He is a British author that wrote Yes Man (which was turned into a movie starring Jim Carrey) and a whole whack of other books.  He has a very dry and very strange sense of humour which I find hilarious.

I stumbled across his work when I was in a thrift store in Nottingham.  I picked up a copy of ‘Yes Man’ for less than a dollar and I must have read it 3 times before giving it to a friend of mine.  It is that good.

In any event, Danny has come out with a new book called, “More Awkward Situations for Men”.  Obviously, this is a sequel to one of his earlier books.  I haven’t read it yet but I’m sure it is going to be just as good as all of his other stuff.

The thing that I really like about Danny is that he writes about his own life experiences.  He’ll put himself into all of these awkward situations (which of course, turn out to be hiliarious) and gets you sucked into thinking “What if I was to do something like that?”

For example, the premise of “Yes Man” is that Danny commits to saying ‘yes’ to everything for a year.  As a result, he gets himself in some fine messes but he also opens himself up to a world of possibilities that he never knew existed.  While the book is funnier than a fart in a space suit it is also very much a self-help resource.

If you’ve ever read any of A.J. Jacobs’ stuff – especially “My Life as an Experiment” – you’ll find their writing styles and the situation they put themselves in quite similar.

Anyway, I haven’t read it yet and all of Danny’s stuff is hard to find in Canada so if you have had a chance to read it, please let me know how it is.

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with one of Danny’s videos but beware, this tune is addictive and you might find that you’ll be humming it for days.