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The Englishman Who Posted Himself And Other Curious Objects (2010)

by John Tingey(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1568988729 (ISBN13: 9781568988726)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

review 1: Remarkable, fascinating, whimsical. Even heroic at some points. Admirable. Inspirationally creative. And what wonderful illustrations - that really adds to the story. This book is as easily loved as a chocolate cream pie. By me anyway. Great for anecdotal history lovers and avid postcard senders. Not suited for hard core historians that are easily bored with ordinairy life's chit chat, or looking for scientific proof on everything.
review 2: I picked up this book because, who wouldn't want to read about a man who tried to mail all sorts of cool things? The answer is, disappointingly, all of us.The book, which has maybe 20 pages of text, is almost all images of the postcards and other artifacts from his life. Yes, what he did is curious and mildly interesting ... moreand would be well worth a magazine article or a human interest piece. But what he did is also shockingly wasteful of an decreasingly important civil service (he mailed himself twice, which required a postman accompanying him to his desired location on his bike). He claims that he was merely testing the postal code as written, but that doesn't necessarily seem to me like an important use of resources...Regardless, it seems that the author happened upon this somewhat interesting man and decided that he wanted to make some money and didn't give any thought to the fact that usually authors write more than a few sentences. The upside is that the number of pictures in this book made it, maybe, a one hour read. less

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