Welcome to Advertising! Now, Get Lost [Paperback]

Omkar Sane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 19, 2009

A 24-year-old who has spent not more than a few weeks in advertising, sums up the profession, its pracititioners and their practices in a hilarious send-up of human nature and human pomposity. Richly illustrated in pop art, and littered with absurd situations - which the author assures us are completely true - Welcome to Advertising! Now, Get Lost has prompted at least one ad guru to regret that he hadn't written it himself.

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"Clothed in humorous wit, it has a ferocious honesty about it. Love it, hate it, but read it. Funny and wicked!" Prahlad Kakar Ad guru

About the Author

Born in Pune, Omkar Sane grew up in Goregaon, a suburb of Mumbai, where he read, wrote, slept and started drinking just like everyone else. School was a problem, because everyone wanted to be nice things like Doctor, Lawyer, CA, Engineer, while his answers ranged from WWE superstar, a gambling giant in Vegas, Mafioso to professional NBA player. Clueless, he went to Sydenham, Mumbai. He saw everyone preparing to be a cog in a machine. The choice was simple: work in a machine and be rich or do things one believed in and stay poor. Sane chose the latter. (His dad chose a job that let him retire at 65.) He finally studied at J.J. Institute of Applied Art where he let lust rule his decisions, and the rest, as they say, was graduation. Like anyone who doesn t know what to do with his/her life, he joined Advertising. Since the food was bad, he joined Television. But since the caterer dogged him, he quit that too. He missed cuisine that had a mother, and so he sat at home writing this book (which is his first, and his best so far). He is 24 and still clueless. His dad now can t retire till he s 70.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Westland Limited; First edition (June 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9380032501
• ISBN-13: 978-9380032504
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,796,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good gift, April 1, 2010

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This review is from: Welcome to Advertising! Now, Get Lost (Paperback)

Bought this as a gift for my boyfriend, apparently it was discussed on one of the design websites he frequents. He enjoyed it.