I note that the Daily Mail serialised Noel Edmonds’ new book “Positively Happy” last week, having first apologised for something they said about it. Edmonds talks about this in an interview with The Guardian today.
All very lovely, but I had a bit of a flick through the book yesterday in a shop. OK – so I’m not exactly going to be a believer of the book “Cosmic Ordering” that’s seemingly responsible for his career revival (I mean, that wouldn’t be due to an insanely popular gameshow format that was storming the world, was inevitably going to end up in the UK, and one way or another was going to need a television presenter – Edmonds being a television presenter). But even a two-second flick through “Positively Happy” reveals it to be incredibly flimsy.
I’ve no interest in the content obviously, but it costs £9.99 runs to around 140 pages, and the columns are narrow, and the lines nicely spaced apart. It’s the sort of thing you’d do if you wanted to make your essay seem really long for your coursework.
Mind you, if the Daily Mail serialised it over five days, there probably isn’t much left to read.
Incidentally, no links to any of these books, because I’d hope that no readers of this blog would ever read such tosh.