Product Description

Modern life is full of annoyances, some large and some small. Indeed it sometimes seems as if life conspires to become more and more annoying every day, just to piss us off. Pop-up windows on the internet, selling you software you don't want ! Having to pay GBP3.20 for a small bottle of water from a hotel minibar! Brian Sewell's voice - please, is there no end to this pain?! Well Mitchell Symons has decided that enough is enough. He's mad as hell, and he's not going to take this any more! If you thought the grumpy old men were grumpy, it's time to think again...More annoying things: People who use finger signs to denote quotation marks. Talking' birthday cards that never shut up. Train journeys that are more expensive than flights to the same destination. Jade Goody. Mobile phone ringtones. Pubs that advertise things happening TONITE. Books on punctuation and grammar. Think of this book as therapy. Everything annoying in the world is here. Hilarious, entertaining and downright infuriating, this is essential reading for anyone out there who likes a good rant.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161562 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express.

Customer Reviews

Couldn't Put It Down!
I thought that Don't Get Me Started was going to be a Grumpy Old Men type of book but it was so much better than that. It starts with minor irritations and gradually moves up to rage. I didn't agree with everything the author felt, but I certainly agreed with enough of it to nod regularly. It's also very funny.

Please Don't Get Finished!
You know those little things in modern life that get you mildly irritated - and those not-so-little things that get you really, really annoyed? Mitchell Symons has been there too, and has chronicled all these annoyances in this hilarious book, which progresses from (mild) annoyance to raging fury. You'll love it, and it'll make an excellent stocking-filler for anyone from nine to ninety.

ANOTHER GREAT BOOK From Mr Symons - he touches my funny bone on every page!
Wow, I didn't know I was so cross about the world we live in till I started reading thsi great book - page after page of what's worng with the country and some of the people in it - and as for the Health Service - will someone please get the author to re-organise it? Too many to say which tickled my funny bone most but complementary therapists with token minimal training and drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts - oh and those sheets draped at roundabouts with scawled messages and birthday greetings - does anyone appreciate such a crass gesture? I'd die of embarrassment if my name was ever put on one...

At the end of the book are the more serious issues -particularly on burglars and the light way they are treated by the law, and the scandal of university tuition fees. As a working class girl who ended up at Oxford, I wholeheartedly agree and recommend this book to anyone - but particularly those whose opinions need sharpening up!