Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges
by:
Guy Browning (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781592401697 (1592401694)
Publish date: September 22nd 2005
Publisher: Gotham
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
This is a series of short essays (taken from the author's newspaper column) each of which starts How to... and then goes on to discuss some small facet of modern life. The book's divided into short sections of 10 or so essays on a related topic, love & marriage, sport, etc. As with any colleciotn of...
Some of this stuff is just really fun. Good light reading, and a few of the pieces have some very wry and "spot on" observations. The author is British, and that brand of humor shows up in his writing.