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by Toby Young (Author)
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  • Paperback: 279 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (7 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349118515
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349118512
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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'I liked it so much I sent Toby Young an e-mail congratulating him' TELEGRAPH 'Young remains a solid comic writer with a winning awareness of his own absurdity. I couldn't put it down' TIME OUT 'If you like your reading to have a certain voyeurism, this is probably a must' OBSERVER 'Only Young could have failed so spectacularly and turned the experience into such a funny and addictively readable story' EVENING STANDARD 'A fun and - if true - rather insightful account of the bitchy, self-serving world of the London media set' METRO 'Very funny ... we would all love to be as successful a failure as he is' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'As a chronicle of ambition run amok it has no peer' SUNDAY TRIBUNE 'Toby regales us with delicious drubbings, past and present, delighting us with tales of his uproarious ineptitude ... unbelievably humorous' SPECTATOR 'Side-splittingly funny. I laughed out loud several times in every chapter' DAILY MAIL 'The doyen of Loser Lit is back, as bumptious as ever. And still very, very funny' SUNDAY TIMES


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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Too soon for a sequel, 2 Oct 2006
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I loved How to Lose Friends, but this follow-up feels like his publisher has demanded a lucrative sequel before Toby Young has assembled enough material for it. The result is a rather lame collection of musings and set-pieces that try to sustain the manic self-destruction of the first volume but never really succeed. The lengthy digression on the birth of his child is especially egregious filler. Young is a talented writer but if he's going to carry on writing memoirs he'd be advised to introduce a bit more of a gap between volumes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Humorous passages....., 4 Oct 2006
I really enjoyed "How to Lose Friends...." and was keen to get the sequel. Although there are some laugh-out-loud funny paragraphs, I got to the end and realised that Mr Young had built the book around the premise of "Writer gets offered script deal-things don't really work out". I admired his achievement of basing a whole book around this and kind of puling it off, but still felt something was missing from the story. Like "How to Lose Friends.." it is very frank in places (it also updates the reader on which of his friends he really had lost by writing the first book)and moves on the story of his wife, who appears to be one of the most patient people known to humanity. Understandably, some readers will view this book as a story told by a privileged, arrogant, rather childish man. For me, however, this is where most of the humour lies.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Sound of My Hands Clapping , 14 Sep 2006
When I first read the excellent.. 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,' I thought, how could you possibly top that.. this story about a social misfit trying to become part of the New York Glitterati came across like Ricky Gervais does in The Office.. but cranking up the cringe-worthiness to the max, I mean it was gold!... But somehow Toby's managed to equal... or even top it.
This book looks at life after HTLFAAP and it doesn't disappoint, it follows Toby on his book tour and his experiences with family and friends.. the humour and typical Toby style writing are there.
.... Simon Pegg is rumoured to be playing Toby in a forthcoming film of the book, give the Casting Director a medal.
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I loved this book even though I hadn't got around to watching How to Lose Friends. I read it in two sittings. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars self opinionated drivel
I was given this book free as a promotion, and all i can say is what a load of self opinionated drivel. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a patch on his first offering
I thoroughly enjoyed Toby's first book, and looked forward to this one...

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As a huge fan of HTLFAAP, I was looking forward to Toby Young's next literary offering. 'The Sound of No Hands Clapping' did not disappoint. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Narcissist-Egomaniac writes memoir....
That is all very well, but said Narcissist-Egomaniac must also DELIVER. This Toby Young never does..... Read more
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