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Friends Like These
by: Danny Wallace

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780091896768
ISBN: 0091896762
Label: Ebury Press
Manufacturer: Ebury Press
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: July 03, 2008
Publisher: Ebury Press
Studio: Ebury Press
Sales Rank: 448

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Dissappointing!!
I almost set it down after 200 pages. But I decided NO... it will get better. It didnt, just rumbled on at the same old speed. Davina McCall describes Danny Wallace to be a genius- O dear, please.
NOT FUNNY!

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- A joy from start to finish
As you would expect from Danny Wallace there is some genuine hysteria here - reminiscing about an unfortunate man whose name was a dreadful variation on `Hitler', impersonating a `furry', making sense of German rap lyrics and general Michael Jackson memories from childhood all had me sniggering, both as I was reading and at various points afterwards.

What I wasn't expecting though was quite how poignant it was at times. There's a few really touching moments, both in terms of what the author finds out during in his `project' and how it's handled in the book. It isn't just a series of funny incidents - it's real, it doesn't always go smoothly, and it asks some pretty deep questions about lost friendships, life and growing up.
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- At must if you are around the 30 mark!
You will laugh out loud and you will warm to this writer from the start! It brings back memories of your childhood and all the sweets, TV shows and characters that go with it. I haven't read his other books but I will be buying them right away, and recommending this one to all my friends. Danny Wallace may seem a bit odd when you see him on the telly but this book gets you to the heart of a guy who is naturally very funny.

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- Essential reading for anyone approaching the Big Three O...
Danny Wallace, writer and TV presenter, is heading towards his 30th birthday and having an identity crisis. His friends all seem to be moving on and as he looks around his grown up house at his grown up display cushions, he starts to panic. One day he opens an old box of paraphernalia from his childhood and finds an address book. Realising he's lost touch with all his old childhood friends; he sets about tracking them down...

Friends Like These is a warm, funny, honest, heartwarming book about rekindling lost friendships and making the transition from being a twenty-something to a thirty-something. As someone who is only a year off doing just that, I could really relate to Danny's feelings. We all wonder what old friends are ... Read More:

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- Ever wondered "whatever happened to..?". Then read this book.
Are you a man around the age of 29? Are you having a strange urge to find out what your old friends from school are up to, and are you worried that it's the beginning of turning 30-something? Well, me too. But now there's no need- you can just read this book instead. Danny Wallace has already done all that, in 2007, and his story is much better than yours, or mine.

Danny goes in search of friends, mainly from primary school, with a very loose premise of 'updating his address book', an address book he's found in a box of old school stuff his Mum kept, though this is just an excuse for a trip down memory lane.

He ends up in L.A., in Japan, in Germany, and around many places in the UK doing all the tracking-down and catching ... Read More:

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