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

Grace Dent (Author)

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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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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 396 KB
Print Length: 208 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0571277748
Publisher: Faber and Faber Non Fiction (14 July 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0053OOTV4
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Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #17,534 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #20 in Books > Humour > Computers & Internet

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful

Sometimes amusing, but largely unnecessary. 27 July 2011

By Lisa M. Harrison

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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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81 of 91 people found the following review helpful

Bad natured and leaves you feeling in need of cheering up 20 July 2011

By Sir Bob

Format:Paperback

You know in every group of cool kids there's one in the gang that is not quite as cool as the rest. Sure they are 100% of the group and involved in everything but on their own they're really just as dorky as the rest of us?
Well, in an internet gang that includes the likes of Caitlin Moran, Emma Kennedy, Laren Laverne and Charlie Brooker Grace Dent is the comedy writer and occsional TV pundit that no one really knows well and who just doesn't quite hit the heights of popularity as the rest.

This book is a good example why the success is elusive and why the team above tend to re-tweet her tweets but don't gain her as many followers as they have themselves.
It explains from Grace's point of view her life on twitter and what she likes and dislikes about the whole thing, and what life is like with thousands of followers. Well it seems her view is that her cool and famous freinds are great, some other people are worthy but everyone else is a moron who should get off the internet and leave it to the experts. Basically the book is a list of things she doesn't like other people doing. At no point referencing the obvious fact that Twitter is optional, you don't have to be bothered with anyone if you don't want, just leave them to do what they want and stop being so intolerant. (And as a geek who remembers what Twitter was originally for, it does annoy me when people complain others' tweets are boring or mundane :) )
I couldn't tell if the joke about Jamelia not being funny on TV game shows was self-aware or not, but either way it still sounded mean and irrelevant in a point about not enough funny and intelligent women being on TV. (Grace Dent was a contestant on the same show and absolutely bombed)

Y'see for a comedy writer, this is not funny. I can see the idea is to be catty and cynical and that could raise a laugh but only if done well. Cynicism without humour is just misanthropy and this leaves you feeling like an unpleasent person enjoys a thing, but doesn't like the way that others enjoy it.
This is not about leaving twitter, it's not about twitter as such, it's about Grace Dent trying to make one big joke about a thing she does but in the end making a whole load of Meh.

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A little bird told me... 20 July 2011

By Cat

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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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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 20 days ago by Vivian Darkbloom

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 1 month ago by bloke3142

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 2 months ago by Fleur de Malamute

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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

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Poorly constructed, unfunny for long passages

I enjoy the journalism of Grace Dent. Not so much her television reviews, but her pieces about her own life are often charming and full of the wit and humour she is known for. Read more

Published 4 months ago by weaselpipe

Pointless

I do follow her on twitter, and think she is very funny in 140 characters, however her writing doesn't translate into a book. Funny at times but pointless as a whole. Read more

Published 4 months ago by M. J. R.

I tried so hard to like it...

I bought this book as I follow Dent on Twitter and read her Guardian column every week. I was so disappointed as it seemed like all Dent was doing was showing how witty she had... Read more

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i myself read books that are ya. but yet i have never come across a "book" like this. shes not funny except the diaries books she writes... Read more

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