Emergency Questions: Now updated with bonus content!
Autor Richard Herringen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 2019
Observăm că, în ciuda omniprezenței ecranelor, arta conversației față în față devine tot mai rară și, uneori, terifiantă. Emergency Questions nu este doar un volum de umor, ci un instrument de supraviețuire socială. Suntem de părere că forța acestei cărți rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma tăcerile stânjenitoare în momente de conexiune bizară, dar autentică. Textul este aerisit, structurat sub formă de întrebări punctuale, fiind extrem de ușor de parcurs și de utilizat ca referință rapidă în timpul unei petreceri plictisitoare sau al unei prime întâlniri care își pierde suflul.
Remarcăm stilul inconfundabil al lui Richard Herring, care refuză banalitatea. În loc de întrebări clasice despre vreme sau profesie, autorul ne provoacă să ne gândim pe cine am alege să dezmembrăm pentru a ne susține șosetele sau care este realizarea noastră mediană. Această abordare amintește de dinamica din 101 Good Questions to Ask on a Date de M. D. Chuka, însă acolo unde Chuka mizează pe romantism și cunoaștere clasică, Herring plonjează în absurd și umor negru britanic, făcând experiența mult mai imprevizibilă.
Cartea se integrează organic în universul autorului, fiind o extensie a celebrului său podcast RHLSTP. Dacă în The Problem with Men sau How Not to Grow Up! Herring explora maturitatea și identitatea cu un ochi critic și amuzat, aici el pune instrumentele interviului direct în mâna cititorului. Prezența răspunsurilor de la Stephen Fry sau Charlie Brooker oferă nu doar divertisment, ci și modele de „repartee” pe care oricine le poate împrumuta pentru a-și revitaliza viața socială.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0751574384
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Sphere
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Credem că această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să scape de anxietatea conversațiilor superficiale. Câștigi un arsenal de 1.001 subiecte memorabile care garantează că nu vei mai rămâne niciodată fără cuvinte. Este un ghid practic de umor britanic care te învață cum să fii cel mai interesant (sau cel mai ciudat) om din cameră, transformând orice interacțiune banală într-o amintire de neuitat.
Despre autor
Richard Herring este un comedian, scriitor și pionier al podcasting-ului britanic, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a inova constant în zona umorului de scenă și digital. Gazdă a popularului podcast „RHLSTP”, Herring a intervievat unele dintre cele mai mari nume ale culturii britanice. De-a lungul carierei, a demonstrat o versatilitate remarcabilă, de la câștigarea competiției „Taskmaster” la scrierea unor piese de teatru apreciate critic și a unor volume de eseuri personale. Stilul său combină auto-ironia cu o curiozitate intelectuală profundă, explorând adesea limitele absurdului cotidian.
Descriere
Now updated with new answers from: David Mitchell, Sara Pascoe, Charlie Brooker and Stephen Fry, among others!
'Ridiculously funny and (unexpectedly) genuinely useful' ADAM KAY
'A perfect way to pretend you're interested in people you're not that interested in' KATHY BURKE
'Most of this book is pointless filth, all of it is hilarious, and my answer to question 715(a) is "Yes thank you and it was very tasty"' DAWN FRENCH
If you had to wear somebody's guts for garters - if you had to - who would you disembowel in order to facilitate your socks staying up?
What do you consider your median achievement?
Would you rather have pubic hair made of unremovable barbed wire or to be attacked by a rabid badger in your sleep once a week?
We've all been there. Stuck at a boring family party, on an awkward date, in a below-par job interview, or any number of other situations in which conversation has become more of a trickle than a flow. Well, fear the excruciation no more, as Richard Herring's EMERGENCY QUESTIONS is about to change your life. Containing 1,001 conversation starters from one of our most cherished comedians, along with plenty of answers from the many household names who've appeared on his podcast, this book is virtually guaranteed to remove any social anxiety from your life, and will raise your repartee-game to new heights.
'Of all the clever people I know, Richard is the stupidest. And of all the stupid people I know, Richard is the cleverest. That's why this is such a brilliant book for everyone' RICHARD OSMAN
'Perhaps if Michael Parkinson had asked Mohammad Ali if he'd ever seen a Bigfoot he might be remembered as a great interviewer. Instead it is Richard Herring who has perfected the art of creating funny, interesting and offensive questions that will supercharge even the dullest encounter' ADAM BUXTON
'Richard Herring bullied me into claiming this book, which I haven't yet read, is brilliant' CHARLIE BROOKER
Recenzii
Would you rather read this book cover to cover every day for the rest of your life, or never read again? We would take the former, because it's the stupidest funniest book of the stupidest funniest questions we've ever read
Guaranteed to get a conversation started . . . even if it ends up being a conversation about your weird taste in books
Thank god and all her sisters for Richard Herring, leaving no turnable stone unimagined with these iceberg breakers
I am involved in emergency situations on a daily basis, with Richard's book I can avoid the majority turning into crisis
Richard Herring bullied me into claiming this book, which I haven't yet read, is brilliant
Perhaps if Michael Parkinson had asked Mohammad Ali if he'd ever seen a Bigfoot he might be remembered as a great interviewer. Instead it is Richard Herring who has perfected the art of creating funny, interesting and offensive questions that will supercharge even the dullest encounter
Ridiculously funny and (unexpectedly) genuinely useful
A perfect way to pretend you're interested in people you're not that interested in
Most of this book is pointless filth, all of it is hilarious, and my answer to question 715(a) is "Yes thank you and it was very tasty"
With this hysterical book, you will once again become the heart and soul of any gathering without having to take your trousers off or write self-loathing apology texts the next day
Of all the clever people I know, Richard is the stupidest. And of all the stupid people I know, Richard is the cleverest. That's why this is such a brilliant book for everyone
Would you rather have pubic hair made of unremovable barbed wire or to be attacked by a rabid badger in your sleep once a week?
We've all been there. Stuck at a boring family party, on an awkward date or in a below-par job interview where conversation has become more of a trickle than a flow. Well, fear the excruciation no more, as Richard Herring's EMERGENCY QUESTIONS is about to change your life. Containing 1,001 conversation starters from one of our most cherished comedians, along with plenty of answers from the many household names who've appeared on his podcast, this book is virtually guaranteed to remove any social anxiety from your life, and will raise your repartee-game to new heights.
If you had to wear somebody's guts for garters - if you had to - who would you disembowel in order to facilitate your socks staying up?