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How to Leave Twitter: My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop [Paperback]

Grace Dent
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Book Description

21 July 2011

Three years ago columnist and author Grace Dent joined new social network site Twitter, mainly as a place to dump her surplus jokes, rant about garbage TV and post exclusive j-pegs of her hot new toenail-varnish. But as every 're-tweet' and 'Follow Friday' saw her audience figures soar by tens of thousands, Dent found herself centre-stage in an all-consuming highly addictive social network revolution. One where the gags, gossip, scandal and backstabbing literally never stop.

Here Dent takes a hilarious, acerbic look at what's really going on in Twitterworld; who's actually tweeting, who's really reading your tweets and what's behind the 140 character lies they tell. She looks at the highs and grotty lows of twitter addiction, the shameless social climbers, the friends you'll make and the ones you can't get bloody rid of, the barefaced bragging, the shameful celeb-stalking, and the truth about 'twanking', twitter cliques, angry 'twitchfork mobs' and dealing with trolls.


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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (21 July 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571277748
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571277742
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 119,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'How to Leave Twitter will make you laugh and cringe in equal measure ... [it's] wickedly funny and showcases Dent's acute observational skills ... mainly, and most importantly, she made me laugh.' --Lee Randall, Scotsman

'Twitter has spawned toilet literature, sitcoms and chin-stroking columns, but nothing has pinned down what makes the social networking phenomenon tick quite like Guardian columnist Grace Dent's new book ... brutally funny stuff.' --Shortlist

'Even twitter-phobes will be laughing out loud at this account of life in the social-networking universe ... one of the funniest books we've read in ages.' --Star Magazine

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A hilarious look at what's really going on in Twitterworld from journalist, TV commentator and author Grace Dent.

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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes amusing, but largely unnecessary. 27 July 2011
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There is a passage in How To Leave Twitter etc. which talks about Grace Dent sitting with her agent trying to think of a book to write. And that, perhaps, is the problem. Dent didn't approach a publisher or literary agent with a fantastic book idea, they asked her to write something in order to cash in on her 'that woman from the telly' celebrity status and Twitter follower count. The result is a pretty irrelevant book about her social-networking likes and dislikes. Worse, the whole thing is written in a list within a list within a list form, which gets tedious from about the fifth page onwards.

I'm fond of Grace Dent, but she's definitely funnier when restricted to 140 characters.
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Self congratulatory and bitter. 26 Oct 2011
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This book says much more about Grace Dent than it could ever do about the people she chooses to criticise and belittle.

It is simply not funny - unless you happen to be one of her circle of Twitter celeb friends and find her in-jokes and references hilarious, or you want to check if she's secretly writing about you.

It should have never have been more than two pages long at most and reads like a blog - one where the writer just didn't know when to stop and walk away from the keyboard.

She seems to have overlooked the main points of Twitter, that it's fleeting, optional and meant to be enjoyable. Here she tries to turn it into some
pseudo-academic exercise which fails on all counts. It's not funny, not interesting and not enjoyable, ironically the complete opposite to Twitter.

She does not have the ability to craft humorous ideas without sounding condescending, smug and juvenile, and her bitterness towards the general public left a nasty taste in my mouth.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A little bird told me... 20 July 2011
By Cat
Format:Paperback
I love Grace Dent's writing, and have recently joined Twitter, so it seemed logical I'd buy this book. Parts of it are absolutely hilarious (despite feeling like I'd read them already - I think there was an extract in the Guardian maybe) but others are a bit of a drag and I found myself skimming over them. Perhaps I am just too new to Twitter to get some of it. It's a slim volume with lots of lists, so a very easy read, but felt a bit like a Christmas stocking filler type book to me.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing groundbreaking
I breezed through How To Leave Twitter in a couple of hours. Grace Dent basically just breaks down the typical Twitter users and launches a lengthy diatribe against each of them. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Amy Whitear
5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny
Anyone who's spent considerable time on Twitter will be thoroughly entertained. Read in one sitting, I couldn't put it down.
Published 1 month ago by Mrs Woman
2.0 out of 5 stars Average, bordering boring.
Quite a big Twitter user, so this book pretty much pointed out the obvious with bitchy bits in-between. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chulabomb
5.0 out of 5 stars Wise words!
Only just got in to twitter. Hopefully wont make an idiot if myself on there now having read this. Cheers @gracedent
Published 2 months ago by MISS E E CONSTABLE
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Sorry! Just ok. Nothing here that you won't have worked out already. Don't really know what I was expecting. Ah well.....
Published 2 months ago by J. Jagger
1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful
Amazing how such a short book can be so exhausting to read.

I thought I spent alot of time on Twitter but clearly not as much as the author. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Vivian Darkbloom
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for Twitter users
Bought this before release based on what I knew about Grace Dent. Just recommended to a friend who is struggling with Twitter and was surprised at the many negative reviews. Read more
Published 12 months ago by bloke3142
3.0 out of 5 stars Funny but Smug
I was well into Twitter before reading this and recognise a lot of what Grace comments on; the 1st bits about the stages of joining Twitter are spot on are very accurate and a lot... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Fleur de Malamute
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, pithy, timely - and absolutely spot on!
I'm not sure some of the other reviewers on Amazon have been reading the same book as me. Two and a half stars as an average customer rating? Shocking! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Miss E. Potten
2.0 out of 5 stars How to Leave Twitter:
this was badly writen and a poor book in all eveb though i only got a few pages in......im so glad a didnt have to pay for this book
Published 15 months ago by Natalie Holder
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