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"Deck the halls with bows of holly - tis the season to be jolly..." Oh really? Face the facts, Christmas is the central festivity of our over indulgent lives because beneath the surface gloss it is, in essence, a celebration of stress. Not enough money, not enough time, not enough chairs for everyone to sit on. Too many presents to get, too many relatives to invite, too many things to get into the oven at the same time. So, I urge you to wake up and smell the turkey curry and do all that you can to encourage the generation of stress both in yourself and in those around you this Festering Season with Rohan Candappa's hysterically funny account of the true meaning of Christmas! Remember that the farther you have to travel on Christmas Day, the more likely you are to argue. Plan your day accordingly. At selected moments try to spoil everyone's Christmas Day by bringing religion into it. Watch the Christmas edition of "Top of the Pops". Lament the lack of real songs/tunes/stars. Then contemplate the fact that you've turned into your dad/mum!
About the Author
Rohan Candappa used to work as an advertising copy-writer, where he won several awards for his work but sees his highest accolade as having one of his TV commercials for McDonalds parodied on Spitting Image. He then left advertising and worked as a scriptwriter for Crucial Films. It was then that he saw a copy of the Little Book of Calm, found it deeply irritating and thought someone should take the piss out of it. Wrote The Little Book Of Stress in three and a half days. The book came out in 1998, rapidly climbed into the bestsellers list. Has sold nearly half a million copies in the UK and been translated into many languages including Estonian. (This probably makes Rohan the best selling Asian humour writer in Estonia). Since then he has written 8 other books and has sold more than a million copies of his titles worldwide, including Growing Old Disgracefully, The Parents Survival Handbook, the Little Book of Wrong Shui, University Challenged and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. No, hold on a minute, that last one was JK Rowling which means he better send that Mercedes back.
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