This book is based on
the Twitter account SoVeryBritish, of which I’m a follower.
The brand of humour is
a mixture of old-fashioned British understatement and absolute
repression, mingled with the new-fangled brevity of Twitter.
Not unlike the Darwin
Awards, or the book I shall review next week (How Britain Kept Calm
And Carried On, by Anton Rippon), it’s more a book for diving into
for a little while rather than one to be devoured at once. More a
handful of Dolly Mixtures than a Yorkshire pudding.
Most of the book
consists of lines taken straight from Twitter, carved up into themed
chapters. Whether you enjoy the book will be apparent almost from the
off. If you like the humour on page one, the odds are you’ll enjoy
the whole thing. Personally, I found it to be entertaining generally,
and occasionally very amusing. As comedy’s very subjective, I would
advocate checking a sample.
In addition to the
tweet anthology approach, there are a few sections which I think were
written just for the book. The humour is in the same vein, and these
bits offer something extra to ardent followers of the Twitter feed
(I’m both a lazy tweeter [ @MorrisF1 for ‘serious’ stuff and
@HeroOfHornska for drunken nonsense from Sir Edric] and so most of
the tweets were new to me, despite being a follower).
So, if you enjoy
reading of the inherent awkwardness of Britishness, you may very well
enjoy this book. I did.
Thaddeus
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