A thoughtful social commentary of its time. Makes you think about people and potential facades perhaps. Worth a read.

This is very much a 'deep' book. By that I mean you need to be able to concentrate quite well to fully follow it. It discusses aspects of sociology, the history of humankind and what may be to come. I wouldn't necessarily say it contains 21 specific lessons as such, like the title seems to imply. It's a book that's likely to make you think and perhaps re-evaluate things - a somewhat philosophical read in a way perhaps. It raises some important questions and the author doesn't attempt to provide any precise answers but that's as it should be really, as no one person can know for certain what will happen to humans, to society in the next few decades and anyone who says they do know, is to be treated with extreme caution, as I have no doubt the author would agree. I remember thinking that this book was published in 2018 and things have changed so much since the corona pandemic - it even mentioned that fewer people die per year of viruses than of cancer and it talks about the importance of globalisation over nationalism, which seems particularly coincidental given the year we've had.

If this sounds of interest, then you should definitely have a look at this book but it isn't a book you can skim read easily and quickly. Overall I would recommend it though, yes. Its a good book to spend a few days reading during a holiday, rather than a short weekend read, I'd say but then that all depends on your reading ability and how distracted you can be and things.

A brief, interesting read

A sometimes amusing and light hearted read

An insightful read, I found this engrossing.

Quirky. A quick, easy read. Kind of nice. I like the whole pro loner aspect to it. Not too judgmental and somewhat thought provoking, I enjoyed this, though it may not appeal to all I suppose but I'd recommend it to introverts, yes.

Its Spike Milligan - what more can I say? utter eccentric crazyness, in the best possible sense!. I read my mums copy of this when I was quite young. I'm guess-timating at around about 1995 maybe, although it might have been when I was a fair bit younger. I'm really not sure.

I sort of enjoyed it but I admit I got lost at least half way through it - it seemed to feature a large number of sub-plots and it was quite complicated. It is a good bit of escapist reading and I feel I enjoyed reading most of it but I did find myself effectively skim reading a fair bit of it. I'm not so good when it comes to following or reading large descriptive texts.

I felt this was a bit slow and bland for the first half but it did pick up towards the end. Its quite descriptive. Its a relatively easy read - distinctly average in my mind. Some of the characters names were interesting - for example, Oriana and Malachy. I can't say I've come across anyone here in Britain with those names but there you go. It wasn't entirely boring but it didn't seem especially memorable either.

I thought this was a very interesting read - its quite insightful about his life growing up, although, if I were to criticise it at all, I might say it doesn't exactly contain masses of information about his family but then I can understand if he wants to keep some things private, I suppose. I liked reading about how he encountered Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) and I liked that its separated into five parts. Don't let the page count put you off too much - there are a couple of blank pages inbetween the various parts, so it doesn't take quite as long as you may initially fear, to read it. I liked the talk about meeting other comedians - it gives a good indication of what it may have been like on the comedy scene in the late 80s and early 90s and it gives you an idea of some of the many interesting jobs Bob had. I also liked that it explains a bit about the behind the scenes of 'Would I Lie To You', the popular BBC comedy panel show, of which Bob's appearances on said show are legendary!. The book itself I thought was both intriguing/revealing and amusing in almost equal measure.

I, as an anxious introvert, found the very end (the last couple of pages) particularly moving. He re-assures other such (i.e. naturally shy) people and offers some basic advice. I liked that very much and I'd happily recommend this book to other fans of his comedy work and anyone interested to read about his life, especially any other introverts or socially anxious people.

This book was hard to put down. It featured numerous plot twists and I found it quite thrilling. It sounded quite realistic and it wasn't overly bogged down in unnecessary details/descriptions, which can put me off some reads. I thought it was quite tense and featured some good character descriptions. Some of the plot twists really did take me aback. It is a bit grim, understandably so and I feel I should note that this novel may be best avoided by anyone who has suffered assaults, which I hope isn't regarded as too much of a spoiler - I say this as it could potentially trigger unpleasant flashbacks but I'm not going to elaborate on that.

Its one of those books where you feel you have a rough idea of how things may play out, only to be proven wrong when you perhaps least expect it.

I liked that this book features fairly short chapters - its quite quick and easy to read chapters individually and the plot pace kept me hooked. I, personally, read this in about a day and a half, while on holiday but it may take others longer, depending on how many hours they can spend reading but I'm happy to recommend it to fans of crime/thriller novels.