- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Southbank Publishing; illustrated edition edition (22 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904915191
- ISBN-13: 978-1904915195
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 16.7 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 865,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 2002 while in Japan, Andy McBean set out on a remarkable adventure. His mission: to record every single visit to the toilet made over a year. Every visit. Not just the bizarre ones involving attacks with fire extinguishers or suffering from hypothermia. Every single visit. It was a grand vision encompassing not just the minutiae of bowel movements but the broad social sweep of environment, society - the people and the places, the act of getting to and getting from - as he puts it so eloquently in his foreword 'the whole flipping rigmarole of toileting'...The Japanese Experiment ended in disaster, crashing and burning on a cold night in Tokyo. But Andy was undeterred and when he had recovered sufficiently he took up the challenge again. This is a record of a year in the life of one man. Some say a brave man, some say foolhardy. Others call him a halfwit. And through this record you can share with him his pain, his pleasure; the tears of laughter, the cries of despair - a moving experience like no other.
About the Author
Andy McBean - with one failed attempt behind him (Japan, 2002) this time he was determined to succeed. Such grit and courage in the face of adversity - qualities usually reserved for great global adventurers - have marked Andy out from the common herd. That and the purely bonkers quality of this particular project. Andy McBean - a very special person indeed.
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Bog standard, more like bog brilliant,
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This review is from: A Year on the Bog (Paperback)
Hilarious concept, and properly laugh out loud good read. It's unbelievable someone could go to such lengths to record their movements for a year. If you enjoy a witty travelogue, ever wondered about toilet philosophy or even like toilet humour you'll love it. Particularly enjoyed the graphs and stats at the end, all the small details really bring the journey to life. Mcbean writes in a charmingly humourous style (kind of Dave Gormanesque), although maybe i now know too much about his toilet habits.
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What it says!,
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This review is from: A Year on the Bog (Paperback)
This book is what the blurb says - a list of the author's trips to the toilet. It also contains his analysis of those trips. I managed to read about 1/4 of the book and skip through the rest. Don't waste your money buying this.
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