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Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges (Hardcover)

by Guy Browning (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books (23 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184354265X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843542650
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 12.4 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic for anyone with a good sense of humour, 5 Sep 2005
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Wow! This book is a great find for anyone with a decent sense of humour. It's packed full of wit about every daily-life subject under the sun. The author finds the comical truth in many every day topics and this makes it applicable to just about everyone - delightfully unusual for a humour book and perfect as a gift for friends and relatives though I warn you - you won't want to part with it once you've got it. You'll find yourself laughing til you cry as you spot yourself in section after section: 'ramblers travel in packs and are always led by a man or woman with a beard and a big knobbly stick. He's known as Ramblo.' And, with searching questions like 'why anyone ever used a cut-throat razor is an absolute mystery; it's like driving a hit-tree car or wearing a make-baby condom.' Almost every sentence in the whole book makes you smile til your jaws ache and it is no wonder this book has been the talk of the town. Can't wait for the next one....
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181 of 187 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect present for the difficult to buy for.., 19 Nov 2004
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Perfect present for the difficult to buy for and the easy ones too.
Great looking book crammed full of laughs on everyday topics. Browning hits the nail on the head every time with his observations on real things other people just don't write about like sheds and handbags, fighting for the duvet and how to manage with big ears. Something for absolutely everyone - best book I've picked up in ages.
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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, 4 Jan 2005
Not five stars, as I preferred his other writing, however still really funny. Browning writes about the things which everyone thinks but nobody says... Like the times you are in a public changing room and you find it hard to change in front of people you don't know - so everyone tries unsuccessfully to slide their clothes on underneath their towel which is wrapped around their naked body!

The book is full of short (2-3 pages) "How to...."'s in different chapters. It is a really good "in-between books" book - and also you can read one chapter and come back to another later as there is no order, and the chapters do not have to be read together to make sense.

Highly recommended as a gift, or for yourself if you want a laugh!!

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