Yes Man by Danny Wallace

Whenever I think of this book, I will forever hear the story in my son's voice.

Why? Well, for a few months before he went off on his travels again (this time to India), and had a job, he got a lift with me each day. It's a bit of a drive, some 15 miles or so which doesn't sound that much, but then you haven't factored in that much dreaded T word ....TRAFFIC. It can turn a simple drive into an epic journey!

One morning, my son read some article or other to me while we were driving and we both thought this is such a good idea! We'll read a book to pass the time - well, he would to me as I drove. And the book he chose was .... Yes Man.

The best choice ever as the story is so funny, we laughed all the way going to work and all the way home. What's more, we looked forward to the daily drive, so we could hear more of Danny's book!

In fact some days we would sit in the car until Harrington had read to the end of the current chapter. We had to have the car light on in the end as the evenings were beginning to get darker.

Eventually, time began running out before the end of the book, as the day of his flight to India drew nearer. The last few days he even read a few chapters indoors! It was that good a book, we wanted to hear the end of Danny's epic yes quest.

Well, the final chapter was read; we'd got the end of the book and to the end of our shared daily drives that took us to work and back again.

Harrington left for his adventure in India - and that's another story!

Do you know, somehow driving to work for me hasn't been the laugh it once was.

It did for Danny Wallace when he became the Yes Man!

Danny Wallace had been saying no. Far too much. No to his friends, no to his colleagues, no to nights out and no to himself. And life was dull. Dumped by his girlfirend and on a road to nowhere, it was only when a mystery man on a late night bus uttered three magic words that his whole world started to change ...

... 'SAY YES MORE.'

Reading is such a relaxing past time and when you can have a good chuckle over what you're reading, it's the best Stress Buster out!

This is one of the funniest books I've read in ages. And yet in spite of the humorous twists and slightly mad turns the story takes, there's an underlying message as well!

Can you imagine saying YES to every single thing you're asked?

What would happen to YOUR life if you began saying yes to EVERYTHING as Danny did!

Danny got an email asking if he would like to be a minister - of course he said Yes!

He bumped into his ex-girlfriend who was going on a first date - got invited along and had to say YES.

You'll have to read the book to find out the good, the bad and the weird things that happened to Danny's life when he said Yes.

If you don't yet have one of these - well do yourself a favour - think again and invest in one!

Read this book now for a good laugh (a great stress buster).

But it's also a book that offers more - there's food for thought here too!

Before he wrote Yes Man, Danny wrote Join Me, the true story of a man who started a cult by accident .

The Daily Mail describes it as one of the funniest stories you will ever read!

Danny Wallace was generally bored when he attended the funeral of his uncle Gallus, a man who had attempted to start a commune in post-war Switzerland. Only three people had joined him. So as a kind of tribute and intrigued as to what might happen, Danny placed an advert in a London newspaper asking for people to join him. Amazingly they did…

Join Me is Danny’s account of how he accidentally started a cult (or collective as he prefers to call it), how over 200 people joined him before he had decided what it was they were joining and how hundreds more joined him once he had. Crucially, it’s also about how he kept it from his girlfriend.