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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life by Josh Widdicombe
jonallanson's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this read. I am a big fan of the author, both as a stand up and as a host/guest on panel shows. And, I connected with the premise: basically an autobiographical look back at a decade through the media experienced during that decade. It is much the way I think about/remember my own experience of the life I have lived so far. Now, I am older than the author, and didn't experience the same time through the same media, but it is not the details that make this book, but the shared method of experiencing and understanding life. This book is filed with lots of great anecdotes well told. A very enjoyable read, very much recommended.
jonnybrick's review
3.0
A couple of copy errors, including a repeated anecdote about adverts, and poor use of punctuation (both of which will be fixed in the paperback) dock this entertaining retrospective-cum-memoir a star. It’s more than just ‘Who remembers Mr Blobby?’, though, and it's full of social commentary and Josh's personality.
nias90's review against another edition
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
Listened to the audio book and was made much funnier listening to Josh tell the stories.
The low reviews on this book for thinking it was an autobiographical is unfair, I think it’s pretty clear what it about.
It is a niche book about the 90s tv shows that shaped his laugh. He’s a really brilliant storyteller and I really enjoyed listening!
The low reviews on this book for thinking it was an autobiographical is unfair, I think it’s pretty clear what it about.
It is a niche book about the 90s tv shows that shaped his laugh. He’s a really brilliant storyteller and I really enjoyed listening!
mrsbooknerd's review
This one wasn't for me, which was a shame because I like Josh Widdecombe. I thought it was going to be more of a straight forward autobiography of his life but it isn't at all. It is a selection of his favourite 90s TV Shows which he recounts in quite in depth details and then just links it back to his life vaguely.
I recognise quite a few of the shows but the book is just like reading the show's Wikipedia page but with some jokes thrown in... I'm not sure I 'get' it. To me, it's almost like this was an idea for a stand up show but it's so niche they knew it wouldn't attract a full audience so it went to book instead. It probably would have worked better as a TV show itself so that images of the actors mentioned and clips of the events mentioned could be used to support the anecdotes.
I recognise quite a few of the shows but the book is just like reading the show's Wikipedia page but with some jokes thrown in... I'm not sure I 'get' it. To me, it's almost like this was an idea for a stand up show but it's so niche they knew it wouldn't attract a full audience so it went to book instead. It probably would have worked better as a TV show itself so that images of the actors mentioned and clips of the events mentioned could be used to support the anecdotes.