Sam Jordison Knihy

One of the world's greatest literary cities, London has streets full of stories and buildings steeped in history. The biggest and most beloved names in English literature have all been here, and you can still see or visit their stomping grounds and favorite places. Follow Oscar Wilde from the literary salons to Clapham Junction; roam with Julian McClaren Ross through Fitzrovia, dropping in for a pint or three with Dylan Thomas at the Bricklayers' Arms; muse darkly over the Thames with Spencer, Eliot, and Conrad; and watch aghast as Lord Byron terrorizes his publisher on Albermarle Street. Moving through time and genre, from Spencer and Shakespeare to Amis and Barnes, from tragedy and romance to chick-lit and science fiction, Literary London is a snappy and informative guide, showing just why--as another famous local writer put it--he who is tired of London is tired of life.

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

Crap Towns started life on the website of The Idler magazine when readers were asked to write short pieces on awful places they knew and despised. This title is an irreverent guide to the 50 worst towns in Britain.

For anyone who is fed up of being told what to do with their time, or made to feel inferior because they don't want to fly half way round the planet on the off chance that a dolphin might swim somewhere their vicinity, this is the perfect book. A slacker's bible, it is the anti-list book in a world where we are surrounded with too many lists - '101 Things to Buy', '50 Things to do in Keighley' - offering us all too many very avoidable treats. Who has the time to read all these lists, let alone follow up on the suggestions? Is it really such a good idea to touch a tiger? All these ludicrous suggestions should be treated with the contempt they deserve. In short, this is a very funny rallying call for common sense and dignified indolence rather than wasteful over-activity. Now comes the final and best list book of all time, easily trumping those books with 100 or 101 things to do, as Life's Too Short comes up with the top 103 things not to do. You know it makes sense.

Kennen Sie die zehn dümmsten Tiere der Schöpfung, die zehn traurigsten Orte der Welt, die zehn schlimmsten Sexszenen der Filmgeschichte oder die zehn gruseligsten Parasiten, die uns Menschen befallen können? Neugierig geworden? Dann erwartet Sie in 162 Kapiteln ein Best-of der wohl übelsten und schlimmsten Dinge auf diesem Planeten. Sam Jordisons Sammelsurium ist die wohl wunderbarste Zusammenstellung menschlichen Versagens, krasser Fehleinschätzungen, vermeidbarer Katastrophen und wirklich, wirklich schlechter Musikalben aller Zeiten.