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Thanks For Nothing (2009)

by Jack Dee(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385615485 (ISBN13: 9780385615488)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Transworld Publishers

review 1: We’ve all done crap jobs, but we can’t all write about them amusingly. Jack Dee can. He gives us the glib, sneery TV persona we’re all used to, but we also get an honest depth of feeling juxtaposed with this. He tells us the funny versions of how he feels or behaved and then he tells the actual versions which are sometimes surprising. You want him to succeed at comedy and he does so it’s a feel good book in a sense. There are also some first class grizzles and gripes, as you would expect. However, this isn’t the grumpiest autobiography I’ve read, that would be Morrissey’s.
review 2: I decided to read this book because Jack Dee is a comedian that I have seen live at the comedy festival, and I have also seen him on TV. He is quite funny so I thought... more that his book would be interesting to read.This book fits into the ‘autobiography’ category on the wide reading programme. I quite like reading autobiographies. I find it quite interesting to read about other people’s lives and experiences.A quote that I like from this book is ‘I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough’. I like this quote because his sense of humour is quite dry and he makes a lot of sarcastic comments, and he looks miserable on stage. But this is all part of his act and I think that this quote shows this.Something that I learned from this book is that you won’t necessarily know what to do with your life straight away. It might take years for you to find the perfect career that works for you and that you are good at. So sometimes it is a good idea to take a job (or opportunity) that you wouldn’t normally take, because you might really enjoy it and/or be good at it.I found Jack Dee to be quite interesting. I find him interesting because he did a lot of pointless, random things, but eventually he found what he was good at and he has made a lot of money doing it. less

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