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'Cheeky, hilarious and downright weird.' --Time Out
'A funny, baldy zeppelin making everything else look a bit rubbish by comparison.' --Heat
'No one skewers the glorious silliness of British popular culture like Harry Hill.' --The Times
'A funny, baldy zeppelin making everything else look a bit rubbish by comparison.' --Heat
'No one skewers the glorious silliness of British popular culture like Harry Hill.' --The Times
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From the nation's favourite comedian, and host of TV Burp, comes a hilarious, unique spoof memoir.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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If you read Livin' The Dreem in small doses, it can hit the spot if you find empathy with Harry's particular view of a celebrity or situation that is incorporated into a surreal diary event. Quite often I would laugh or at least chuckle after reading a few entries and then putting the book down. However, if you try to read too much in one sitting it can really grate and the style become annoying like a comedian constantly hammering home why the punch line is funny rather than just moving on. I guess with 365 days to report on this was probably inevitable. Worth reading but take no more than 2 times a day , with a few hours between each dose.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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One doughnut at tea-time is undoubtedly a treat, but could you manage two? Perhaps you could. But not without licking your lips!
Whether you could consume 20 in one sitting and still be convinced of their marvellous healing properties would be another thing altogether, though.
This book consists of one layer of zaniness, followed by a generous wadge of wackiness, oversized ladles of spontaneous silliness and many toppings of surreal clownery. It's all a bit much if your humour receptors have been surviving on much lower-calorie, fibrous stuff.
I can hear Harry's voice reel off the random silliness contained in this book - which helps somewhat - but I still don't connect with the humour in the same way I have done in the past when I can actually watch and listen to it - it just doesn't really lend itself to the written word.
If I had the patience, I would limit myself to reading one day's diary entry every day, as there seems to be a lot of random tomfoolery here that just blends into itself if I read more than a bit at a time.
Recommended to Hill connoisseurs only - if you've ever felt like he's on a stronger dosage than you are, I'd avoid. Sorry Harry - I still love the stand-up xxx
Whether you could consume 20 in one sitting and still be convinced of their marvellous healing properties would be another thing altogether, though.
This book consists of one layer of zaniness, followed by a generous wadge of wackiness, oversized ladles of spontaneous silliness and many toppings of surreal clownery. It's all a bit much if your humour receptors have been surviving on much lower-calorie, fibrous stuff.
I can hear Harry's voice reel off the random silliness contained in this book - which helps somewhat - but I still don't connect with the humour in the same way I have done in the past when I can actually watch and listen to it - it just doesn't really lend itself to the written word.
If I had the patience, I would limit myself to reading one day's diary entry every day, as there seems to be a lot of random tomfoolery here that just blends into itself if I read more than a bit at a time.
Recommended to Hill connoisseurs only - if you've ever felt like he's on a stronger dosage than you are, I'd avoid. Sorry Harry - I still love the stand-up xxx
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I'm really sorry, Harry. Truly I am. Loved your early shows and your stand-up. Love TV Burp. But really can't click with your books. Got badly stung with "Flight from Deathrow", which I was really looking forward to - but thought was awful. This is better, but after the first thirty pages or so I hadn't even smiled, let alone laughed. Rambling, unfunny, silly (not in a good "TV Burp"-type way, either), infantile rather than surreal. A parody of the majority of modern pop culture? Why bother? The overblown pomposity and grandiosity of modern celebrity does a fairly good job of unknowing self-parody anyway. I just don't get it, which bothers me. Both because I really, really like Harry (I even laugh like a drain at "You've Been Framed"!), and because almost every other reviewer loves this book. So is it just me? Just bear in mind that when you read the glowing praise on here, other opinions are available. I would strongly suggest reading a few pages before you buy - and I hope you enjoy it, I truly do. Sadly, I didn't.
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MAD AND VERY FUNNY
When I first bought this book I thought it was supposed to be a true life look at a year in Harrys life and because it wasn't I gave it a bad review. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Dk Barrett
If you like Harry, you should like this
Harry Hill is someone who you have to have specific tastes to appreciate as a comedian anyway, since he is quite silly in his humour. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J.E.T
Everybody loves Harry!
This fictional diary gives us an account of a year in the life of Harry Hill - surely one of Britain's most loveable comedians. Read more
Published 7 months ago by rp
Relentless silliness
Follow Harry through the year of 2010 where he has many escapades with his many showbiz pals, as well as his family - Mum, Uncle Bob, Dog and Nan. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Tim Roast
mad cap fun, just like the author.
If you like Harry Hill and his madcap comedy style you will love this book.
A real fantasy ride through a year in his imaginary life and that of his mum, dog and on off... Read more
A real fantasy ride through a year in his imaginary life and that of his mum, dog and on off... Read more
Published 11 months ago by T. Andrews
Guess what it's like... you're right
Very funny tales of Bexhill-on-Sea (which is portayed as nicer than I remember it) and the clinic for showbiz illnesses (which isn't) via wogan's underground fortress and including... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Maclennane
I missed this book when I had finished reading it...
If you like and understand Harry's quirky off the wall humour, then you will love this book. It's the kind of book you can just pick up and put down whenever you feel like it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Funny Girl
One for Harry fans
Livin' The Dreem is not quite what I expected, and maybe I should have known better. I was expecting something a little more like a diary of Harry's real life, perhaps even... Read more
Published 12 months ago by CJ
Very funny but not so funny you drive off the road!
We are big Harry Hill fans and loved these 4 discs. Great for a long car journey like Manchester to London. Read more
Published 13 months ago by MK65
Livin' the Dreem
I didn't quite know what to expect with this book when I first got it, but I am definitely glad I have read it. Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. Wareing
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