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I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs. The Unpublished Emails.
by
David Thorne
New edition. More everything. All new, never before published material from the author of The Internet is a Playground. New emails, new articles, new exclusive content. I'll Go Home Then; It's Warm and Has Chairs is the second book by New York Times Bestselling author David Thorne.
Hardcover, 1, 210 pages
Published
March 14th 2012
by David Thorne
(first published January 1st 2012)
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This book has some nice collection of jokes, personal experiences, and quotes. But as a humourist he should know the fine line between funny & sick jokes, which he does not, of course. Considering him an entertainer (or may be the right word is 'joker')of a massive number of people, I tried to overlook it. But there are other reasons if anyone wants to shatter his stupid skull:
1. Animal Cruelty:
(a)So here is what he wrote in his articles:
"I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a wee...more
1. Animal Cruelty:
(a)So here is what he wrote in his articles:
"I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a wee...more
I'll go home then is not an apt title by any means for any kind of book. Trust David Thorne to come up with it. It's not as good as Thorne's first book, The Internet's a playground. He knows this book is inferior, a fact that I grasped within the first few pages. Although the quite long foreword was good, it showed a different kind of humor, more slapstick.
The book's main jokes are double meaning. That's fine if the idea by itself is funny. Maybe this book is not for me but I did enjoy the Int...more
The book's main jokes are double meaning. That's fine if the idea by itself is funny. Maybe this book is not for me but I did enjoy the Int...more
Can't really see most people digging this, but I love it, and so.
As well, nearly all of the content in this book and his first are available at his excellent website, and better still, the images are in color. So, like, you can save some money and check it all out without opening your wallet.
Me, I buy his books because I find his stuff so gasp-inducingly funny that I want to support him. Laughed out loud long and wheezily at so much in this book (and on the site), that it is hard to single out...more
As well, nearly all of the content in this book and his first are available at his excellent website, and better still, the images are in color. So, like, you can save some money and check it all out without opening your wallet.
Me, I buy his books because I find his stuff so gasp-inducingly funny that I want to support him. Laughed out loud long and wheezily at so much in this book (and on the site), that it is hard to single out...more
Oh how I love David Thorne and oh how I ate this book. It's his little follow up to his first book, still more fucking with people a la his 27b/6 website, so basically everything I said about that first book holds true here.
I guess I've just had to decide he is not evil and that the people he fucks with have to deserve it, otherwise he would have zero friends. He might have social issues/impulse control, because who the hell just wanders off angrily at a forced work weekend getaway/has the balls...more
I guess I've just had to decide he is not evil and that the people he fucks with have to deserve it, otherwise he would have zero friends. He might have social issues/impulse control, because who the hell just wanders off angrily at a forced work weekend getaway/has the balls...more
You know, I once heard a keynote speech by Robert Stephens (the guy who came up with the Geeksquad), who told about a professor he was working for at a university for some extra cash. The professor told him not to forget this simple principle:
"confidence = deviance."
I take it to mean that the better you are at something, the easier it is for you to do things that are not as normal as others in your field.
David Thorne reminds me of Simon Cowell. Without him American Idol is just a sham, as he was
...more
Although not as rich and dense as The Internet is a Playground, this was another hilarious read. I had so much fun reading. Constantly snickering and even bursting out laughing. The people around me often looked at me as if I lost my mind.
This book contains the texts that didn't make the first book, completed with new texts and photoshopped images. Thorne downplays his efforts by stating this book contains the texts that were "too bad" for the first book. But, because he needed to write a new bo...more
This book contains the texts that didn't make the first book, completed with new texts and photoshopped images. Thorne downplays his efforts by stating this book contains the texts that were "too bad" for the first book. But, because he needed to write a new bo...more
From my review at bookendbabes.com:
http://www.bookendbabes.com/2012/07/0...
Every time I review a funny book here at BEB, I worry that I’ve gone too far. “That’s it Leslie. You’ve read all the really funny books out there, and nothing will make you laugh out loud at the orthodontist again.” Sigh. It’s sad because I believe it to be true. And yet, I’m still here, reviewing funny books. But this time, I think I’ve truly hit the wall…jumped the shark with Fonzie…whatever. Until I found this – David...more
http://www.bookendbabes.com/2012/07/0...
Every time I review a funny book here at BEB, I worry that I’ve gone too far. “That’s it Leslie. You’ve read all the really funny books out there, and nothing will make you laugh out loud at the orthodontist again.” Sigh. It’s sad because I believe it to be true. And yet, I’m still here, reviewing funny books. But this time, I think I’ve truly hit the wall…jumped the shark with Fonzie…whatever. Until I found this – David...more
The only reason to buy this book is to thank Mr. Thorne for all his humor that is available on the internet. But that is a very good reason. Absolutlly amazing amusing stuff.
HILARIOUS!!!!! I love this guy! I found him online and love reading his website 27bslash6.com. He is a guy that just loves to mess with people and ramble on and on. You must check out his website! As soon as I read the online article about trouble he got in for using the Penguin Books logo on this cover (which has now been changed) I just had to buy the book and it was well worth it! I even e-mailed David Thorne and he actually wrote me back. I felt very special.
Jan 04, 2013
Eric T. Voigt
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I like this David Thorne a titch (I've been using 'titch' in verbal conversation for the past few months without knowing for sure if it was a real word or not. Turns out it is!) less than the first David Thorne, but that just means I laughed out loud one or two times less than last time, and that might have something to do without not being able to get into a good groove what with constantly stopping to do family time bullshit over the holiday season, which is when I started it. Now I read it an...more
Absolutely hysterical. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. This will appeal to anyone who appreciates sarcasm and a good, old practical joke. It also appeals to anyone who has ever worked in an agency setting before.
Toward the end of the book it loses a bit of steam and isn't as funny, but I still recommend this book to anyone and everyone. David, I appreciate all the laughs I got from reading this. Thank you.
Toward the end of the book it loses a bit of steam and isn't as funny, but I still recommend this book to anyone and everyone. David, I appreciate all the laughs I got from reading this. Thank you.
I could not read this book in any kind of setting where I was eating, drinking, or around other people, as every single paragraph made me laugh like an insane person. David Thorne has my sense of humor to a tee. I absolutly love the way the book is put in order; nothing makes sense until you read it all, or not at all. I adore David Thorne, truly.
Hilarious, as always. A view of everyone's favorite ego-centric office nuisance. A good laugh at his daily life and the going's-on of a witty and sarcastic man. More emails and general stories from the master of funny everyday life gone wrong stories. Can they be believed as 100% true? Of course not, but thats what make "fishing stories" so much fun to read.
I snickered thru this entire book, but towards the end I got a little bored with it. More of the same, but not entirely as funny throughout. Pick it up, read the bits about his fights with Holly, the lawyer issues and the lunchtime order, but know that it trails off a it at the end. Although, the last cat comic strip is definitely my favorite.
Again, this smartass cracks me up with his exchanges with neighbors, co-workers, and ski-shop owners. Has a bunch of emails not on the website. I really can't say anything about it, except if you are familiar with his website, or his other book "The Internet is a Playground" then you'll love this book.
Thoroughly enjoyable read. Sometimes I like to read books in which someone is a total asshole constantly, purely because such things are socially unacceptable and I can vicariously live the life of a total knob without repercussions. This makes me happy.
I'm afraid to write anything negative having seen this genius of a man's wrath; David Thorne manages to troll IRL and provoke reactions that one can only really expect to come from the good folk in America, and being spurred on by an Evil Australian.
Thorne does things that most people, well at least me, want to do from time to time and publishes them not much caring about consequences. This book, and his website, is far from being politically correct and a fine refreshment from it.
I think you'll either love or hate David Thorne's sense of humor, he's ridiculous, over the top, says the things we secretly want to say while at the same time being annoying enough you just want to smack him.
HUH-larious. Laughed uncontrollably throughout, which was embarrassing on the subway. Small typos and lack of design make its self-publishedness very obvious, and mulch of the content is on his website as well, but it's too funny to mind any of that.
I would say the book has an Iron Man 2 effect. It is a little disappointing, as it is not as great as the first one, but it is still highly entertaining, and well put together. I laughed my ass off.
Толкова не съм се смял на книга. Половината от случките могат да се намерят в сайта на автора, но дори само за другата половина добавено съдържание, книгата си струва парите.
I couldn't help it...I had to go back to the well on this one, and the result was unsurprisingly, the same as the first book. Some of it hilarious, most of it not. Oh, well. Let's just keep this one quiet.
This book had me laughing from beginning to end. Either you love David Thorne or hate him. I love the witty sarcasm and how his writings make me laugh out loud.
This book was pretty funny. The first by David Thorne, "The Internet Is a Playground," was probably the funniest book I ever read. If this first was rated a 10 on my own humor scale, the sequel would probably get an 8. There's something about passive-aggressive, antagonistic behavior that I can appreciate and usually find hilarious.
Very funny, has a lot more information than the website, with good photos. You need to read from cover to cover as even the Contents page has extras.
If you read 23/6 regularly, then you've already seen 80% of this book. But he's still a very funny writer, who does some amazing things.
Not entirely unpublished, but I'll forgive him because David Thorne is funny enough that I'll read his stuff a dozen times and still laugh.
Love him. Wanna hang out with him. He just messes with people and no one is safe! Sounds like my friends.
Thorne's ability to completely infuriate people makes for conistantly hilarious reading.
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David Thorne is an Australian humourist, satirist, Internet personality and New York Times best-selling author. His work has been featured on the BBC, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 for an email exchange in which he attempts to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider....more
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