Here Comes the Fun
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Here Comes the Fun

A Journey Into the Serious Business of Having a Laugh

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Here Comes the Fun

A Journey Into the Serious Business of Having a Laugh

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About This Book

'What Aitken writes about fun is worth reading' Mail on Sunday'Irresistible' Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Walking the Bones of Britain'A great book' Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch'Aitken's writing is always a delight' Madeleine Bunting, author of The SeasideAre you getting enough? Bestselling travel writer Ben Aitken wasn't.Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, Ben gave boredom the boot and stress the cold shoulder by embarking on a whimsical journey into the serious business of having a laugh.He did a pilgrimage in Spain, a summer camp in Kent, and a cruise of the Baltic with 2, 000 grannies. And when he wasn't on the road, he searched for merriment at home: by giving bridge a go, volunteering a chance, and gardening a crack of the whip.By incorporating the thoughts of key thinkers and boffins, Here Comes the Fun offers a satisfying balance of the playful and the profound, the serious and the silly, the daft and the deep.

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Publisher
Icon Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781837730070
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. 1 Fun is a funny thing alright
  3. 2 Silliness can go too far
  4. 3 To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness
  5. 4 Oh to possess once again that nine-year-old style!
  6. 5 I can’t lose the sight of myself
  7. 6 Never doubt yourself, people!
  8. 7 A pair of trousers that I would instantly remove in the event of finding myself in them
  9. 8 The gap between who we habitually are and who we actually are
  10. 9 A perfect harmony of despair and delirium, all wrapped up in glee
  11. 10 Fishing is essentially a satirical activity
  12. 11 The psychic benefits of novelty
  13. 12 The invisibility of what’s constant
  14. 13 A chance to re-evaluate what we value
  15. 14 A bearded man with an axe
  16. 15 The spurious privilege of options
  17. 16 An unfiltered version of everything you are
  18. 17 I almost pull a neck muscle trying to seem happy
  19. 18 The sort of person who embraces a sudden downpour
  20. 19 It might be helpful to consider life as a pie
  21. 20 Toward the foothills of euphoria
  22. Acknowledgements