Robert Skinner
Autore di Skin Deep, Blood Red
Serie
Opere di Robert Skinner
I'd Rather Not: Essays 6 copie
I'd Rather Not 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Utenti
- 141
- Popolarità
- #145,671
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 1
Skinner, from Australia, is extremely funny at times and entertaining throughout. I laughed out loud several during some stories, while others were enjoyable, although perhaps not as genuinely humorous to me. As I was reading this collection it did seem that citizens of Australia might appreciate all of these stories more than I would. Other readers should appreciate musings about his job history and other adventures. This collection can be read all at once or one at a time.
Some highlights (not quotes, modified) that had me laughing in tears include: a remark about holding racism against the Swiss; leadership defined as when you to jump in front of a pack of charging camels after being told to; needing money from a first magazine issue to pay for the second being a Ponzi scheme; people compared to pack animals who need to know their place to thrive (still laughing over the context and complete paragraph); listing his reason for visiting a country as "Idiot." This is a quick, easy, entertaining collection with a gorgeous book cover on the edition from Steerforth.
Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Steerforth Press via Edelweiss.
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