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Loading... Alan Partridge : nomad (edition 2016)by (Fictitious character) Alan Partridge
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A little lazy at times (a lot of ground that's been covered elsewhere is gone over again) but still a very funny and entertaining read if you like Alan Partridge. ( ) This is one of the funniest books I have read. I just love the Alan Partridge character, with all his insecurities and petty attempts to show off. I read the first book, I Partridge, and this is even better. In Nomad, Alan tells the story of his walk to honour his father – he will walk from Norwich to the Dungeness Nuclear Power Station. Not only is the book packed with hilarious episodes, the writing is also fabulously bad – full of examples like “the wind whistling through my hair like a wind whistle”. Highly recommended. Pure Alan Partridge. He's still obsessed with being on TV and being middle class. I enjoyed the book a lot. there were plenty of laughs on Alan's journey in the 'footsteps of his father', with enough 'plot' and sidenotes to keep the book interesting as he buffoons his way from Norfolk across the South East. One of the things I like about him is that there's a little bit of Alan in all of us, his petty jealousies, his self-importance and arrogance etc. This was a good follow up to I,Partridge. I am sure there will be more. no reviews | add a review
As seen on This Time with Alan Partridge on BBC One. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Praise for Nomad: 'Funniest book of the year' Sunday Telegraph 'Alan Partridge's Nomad is almost certainly the funniest book ever written' Caitlin Moran 'Sensationally funny. What brilliant writing' Richard Osman 'Sensational' Jenny Colgan 'Hilarious' Jon Ronson 'Brilliantly funny' Marcus Brigstock In ALAN PARTRIDGE: NOMAD, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance. Diarising his ramble in the form of a 'journey journal', Alan details the people and places he encounters, ruminates on matters large and small and, on a final leg fraught with danger, becomes - not a man (because he was one to start off with) - but a better, more inspiring example of a man. This deeply personal book is divided into chapters and has a colour photograph on the front cover. It is deeply personal. Through witty vignettes, heavy essays and nod-inducing pieces of wisdom, Alan shines a light on the nooks of the nation and the crannies of himself, making this a biography that biographs the biographer while also biographing bits of Britain. No library descriptions found. |
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