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As They Slept (2012)

by Andy Leeks(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1480073059 (ISBN13: 9781480073050)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Createspace

series

As They Slept

review 1: Wow, really enjoyed this, will read all the others!Wow, I really enjoyed this, it was very entertaining, not what I expected at all from when I had seen it before. I grabbed it while it was on free promotion yesterday and just had a quick dip into it as I was already reading another book-I soon couldn't resist and just kept on reading-and laughing! This is a fun and different idea for a book. I agree with Andy's theory-I go to bed late every night and am up early every morning-you can get so much done whilst others are just having a lie in! This book was written as a result of a Facebook challenge and Andy ended up writing a book, written purely in the time it took him to get to work on the train each day. I love diary format! Andy Leeks has such a fun way of 'putting it o... morever', I really 'get' this book! Well observed, this IS what people do. So perceptive. I like something different and this is certainly a breath of fresh air. Enjoyable, it certainly raises a few chuckles. Easy and quick to read with short fragments relating to each day spent traveling and what he's observed. This is just so clever. I often laughed out loud. Just endless amusing quotes. I like the humour in this book. Some authors try to be 'laugh out loud' and they're not but this is really good! So many comical philosophical gems from Andy Leeks. So, yes, it's fun. I can see that you have to have the right sense of humour for this, some people might think 'what's the point?', but, their loss! Just hilarious imagining him consulting the coffee jar for content in grams, working out how much he uses, the cost etc!-so quirky and obsessive-just like the way I think things through! I am so sad I actually checked all his sums ha ha. Is Andy a stand-up comedian? He should be! These are such funny observations, not like anything done before, really different, so effective. This is a shortish book, I never thought I was going to enjoy it so much and have so much to say about it. There is a diary entry about toilets on trains, people's habits there etc. Fits of giggles here! He is thinking deeply about the everyday things of life, the 'sods law' of it all. More and more funny quotes keep coming up. This book SO works for me. He's just perfect at his punch lines which round off the daily happenings. Part of the title is 'the comical' and that's just what it is-and more. I tend to steer clear of books which authors title 'laugh out loud' because, usually, they're not. This IS but you don't get the feeling that the author has said, look at my book it's laugh out loud etc; he has let you decide for yourself, more unassuming, so it's a welcome surprise just how great it is. It did have one little dip in the humour, but, at this point, Andy was talking about some sad events that had been happening in his life. It soon picked up again and I can't wait to read the other instalments in the series. My absolute favourite bit was the coffee calculations-hilarious!
review 2: I would have given this 2 1/2 stars if I could; there were parts that I really liked and parts that were just ok. It wasn't really what I was expecting but it was mostly amusing. I thought there would be more humorous reflections on the actual commuters (there were a few mentions but many entries were random thoughts on other topics). I did actually laugh out loud (and even snort inelegantly) whilst reading the section about using train toilets and public toilets in general. I also didn't realise when I bought this on kindle that it was only the first instalment and not a full year's worth of morning commute writing (the year is still in progress as I write!); but at only 99 cents for the download I'm not complaining. Overall,the novel idea behind the book makes it interesting and some of the entries are rather humorous. Maybe the author will continue to refine his humorous style and dish us up some more laughs in the next instalment. less

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