{"id":1509,"date":"2006-05-29T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/05\/yes_man\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T13:08:05","slug":"yes_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/yes_man\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0091896746&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nNow a general rule of thumb I&#8217;ll always make when deciding if I&#8217;m going to read a book is this: if Davina McCall gives the book a ringing endorsement, then it&#8217;s probably not for me. (As an aside, I learn with shock that some publishers are actually <em>embossing<\/em> the Richard &#038; Judy Bookclub logo on their books rather than the more traditional, and eminently removable, sticker. To those unfortunate enough to have such a title in their possession, I can only recommend placing a &#8220;3 for 2&#8221; sticker over the top).<br \/>\nBut I made an exception for Yes Man, because I&#8217;d quite liked Danny Wallace&#8217;s previous book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000398.html\">Join Me<\/a>. This time around Wallace decides to say Yes a bit more, with over the top consequences. We get a year in his life and there are some real ramifications of doing it. Obviously, we get the humourous take on things, and you&#8217;re always slightly suspicious that as the costs are stacking up, they&#8217;re going to mitigated somewhat by the book deal. I&#8217;m being unfair though. Of course you want him to travel around and do off the cuff things. I wasn&#8217;t entirely convinced by some of the cod religious stuff (Did he really meet a reincarnation of Jesus on the back of a bus? Or was he actually just a teacher with a positive frame of mind).<br \/>\nHowever, I can happily recommend this book which has some laugh out loud moments that certainly made some of my fellow tube passengers think I was mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now a general rule of thumb I&#8217;ll always make when deciding if I&#8217;m going to read a book is this: if Davina McCall gives the book a ringing endorsement, then it&#8217;s probably not for me. (As an aside, I learn with shock that some publishers are actually embossing the Richard &#038; Judy Bookclub logo on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}