'Funny, fantastical and forthright, this is an indispensable survival guide to the real world' - Daily Mail
This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.
In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when the withdrawal symptoms hit him, he realised in order to stay clean he'd have to replace everything social media gave him with three-dimensional, real-life activities.
Employing the help of a mysterious, wealthy benefactor named Clancy Dellahue, and an ever-growing gang of misfits (aka the Tangfastic Crew), James found ways to replace his online friends (he joined the scouts) and spy on his exes (climbing ropes, zip lines, fake moustache) as well as …
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'Funny, fantastical and forthright, this is an indispensable survival guide to the real world' - Daily Mail
This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.
In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when the withdrawal symptoms hit him, he realised in order to stay clean he'd have to replace everything social media gave him with three-dimensional, real-life activities.
Employing the help of a mysterious, wealthy benefactor named Clancy Dellahue, and an ever-growing gang of misfits (aka the Tangfastic Crew), James found ways to replace his online friends (he joined the scouts) and spy on his exes (climbing ropes, zip lines, fake moustache) as well as anonymously bullying strangers, seeing photos of everyone's dogs, getting public figures fired, arguing with everybody about everything, and so much more.
His life is amazing and yours could be too if you buy JAMES ACASTER'S GUIDE TO QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING THE BEST YOU YOU CAN BE AND SAVING YOURSELF FROM LONELINESS VOL. 1.
James Acaster is a (real) comedian in the UK. In this book he tells a story of quitting the Internet c.2020 and then attempting to recreate online experiences in real life. Opening an art gallery to display photos of his lunch. Stalking his ex with night vision goggles. Unfriending people by doing them actual harm. Starting businesses he's totally unqualified to run. Along the way he gains a cultish gang of followers ... but, are they his Friends?
Read this book if you appreciate puns that are so bad they're good.
