In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a 'Random Act of Kindness' every Friday. As a result, his thousands of followers (dubbed the Karma Army), without warning, made people happier the length and breadth of the country. Now in Random Acts of Kindness Danny and the gang bring you a hilarious, well-meaning book to encourage you to perform Random Acts of your own. 'Now, at last, the secret to a happier world! You have the power to make it a nicer place! All over the planet, thousands of people just like you are performing Random Acts of Kindness for complete strangers- Buy an old lady a hat! Give a policeman a helium balloon! Pat a dog! Hand a stranger your umbrella! Applaud a lady who's clearly made an effort! This book contains 365 real Random Acts of Kindness real people have done for real strangers- so read it, learn it, and start making your world the nicer place, today!'
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'Hilarious', Heat .'A lot of the seasonal would-be funny books are posing as self-help works...so it's nice to find this stocking-sized help-others volume that may even promote the spirit of Christmas...Here, with the help of his followers, Danny Wallace suggests 365 Random Acts of Kindness....And I have one of my own: give a small book a rave review', Sunday Telegraph
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Award-winning journalist and producer Danny writes for many publications, including The Independent and The Guardian. Part of the original team behind the British Comedy Award-winning Dead Ringers, also produced the acclaimed cult hit The Boosh, for Radio 4. BBC America recently and bizarrely dubbed him 'one of Britain's most respected journalists', but they were clearly mistaken. He's 26, and lives in an old match factory in Bow
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If You've Randomly Come Across a Danny Wallace Book, Your Day Just Got a lot Brighter!,
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This review is from: Random Acts of Kindness (Paperback)
Random Acts of Kindness is a nice little spin off of Danny Wallace's massively successful cult (literally and in the definition of cult classic) masterpiece Join Me!. That story was how Danny started his own cult by accident with a simple experiment of placing an advertisement in a newspaper asking for people to join him by sending a photo and seeing what happened). Ultimately he had to make a decision, what would he as cult leader get his followers to do? Evil things? Good things? He decided on good and his followers performed numerous acts of kindness to complete strangers. This little side book is 365 examples of those acts. You should read Join Me first to fully appreciate this but if you just want to motivate others to do something nice, get a better outlook on life or have friends who don't want to read a big non fiction novel then this little gem will suffice on it's own.
Some examples of the random acts of kindness inside are washing your neighbour's cars, if someone cuts you off in traffic, instead of giving them the finger, smile and wave at them like a lunatic. Write to an old teacher and say thanks, give blood, print shirts with someone's face on it as well as banners and organise a night in their honour when they turn up at the pub, compliment a lesbian couple on their haircuts and listen to a story without once interrupting. Random Acts of Kindness doesn't really show how brilliant a writer and storyteller Danny Wallace is though. Check out Join Me and his masterpieces such as where he along with his flatmate and fellow leading writer in the weird true reality life genre Dave Gorman set out to find and meet 54 other people with the exact same name as Dave Gorman (Are You Dave Gorman?). Yes Man where Danny takes a vow to say yes to any request for the rest of the year no matter what is asked of him. Plus his contribution to Quick Reads (short stories sold at train stations and other places to encourage people to read books rather than just magazines, graphic novels, newspapers and the like) which was called Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe where Danny travels to and explores the Idaho town of Wallace, which claims to be the centre of the universe. Danny also has a new book out called Friends Like These which although not up to the masterpiece standard of his previous work is still a very good and enjoyable read as well.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
great fun!,
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This review is from: Random Acts of Kindness (Paperback)
this was a fun book and does review the idea that we can all have more fun and delight in life by doing things that are a little oddball. Even read it twice with about a year between to review some fun ideas
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very Random,
By Debnance at Readerbuzz (Alvin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Random Acts of Kindness (Paperback)
Not being one to fully know (or, perhaps, fully appreciate) English humor, I could never quite decide if Wallace was serious or joking. Help me out here, British folk. Perhaps some serious ideas and some not so? Give an apple to your teacher. Leave some fresh fruit and vegetables outside a student house. They will probably try and turn it into beer, but at least you tried. Resist the urge to kill.
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