Book info

• Title Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
• Author David Mitchell (comedian)
• Year 2014
• Genre Non-fiction

There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedianDavid Mitchell, such as: Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious modern world.

Thoughts

I was perusing my to read list and found this one, a compilation of newspaper columns written by the comedian over a decade ago. So I was tempted to just bin it, because I’ve not enjoyed reading columns so much recently, and these were bound to be out of date. But I gave it a go and there were a few that I did enjoy reading. Mitchell’s trademark grumpy smart style is funny and worth reading. I can’t promise I read every word - some of the columns about politicians I don’t know and situations that happened so long ago were easy to gloss over. But the columns that caught my attention were good and fun.

Rating: 3 / 5