Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98101 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Kingsley Amis once remarked, 'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.' Raymond Delauney has certainly taken this advice into the twenty-first century as he embarks on a mission to antagonize as many people as he can - via email. Convincingly adopting a number of different guises, including a job applicant, salesman, disgruntled customer and inventor, one thing remains constant - Delauney's ability to irritate and provoke whoever he engages in correspondence. This book is a Henry Root updated for our times. While the names and email addresses have been changed, the emails themselves are very, very real!!

Customer Reviews

Absolutely loved it - lapped it up.
Read it all in one day. Not the only type of its genre but for me this is different from and better than the rest of the bunch - and I'm a big fan of Timewasters.
Delauney is quick to praise but sharper with insult qnd putdowns, he draws his marks in and spits them out mercilessly. Reading the resulting fallout is an extremely entertaining pastime.

Who Is Raymond Delauney?
I worked with the author some years ago at an advertising agency in London. He was fired for selling one of our biggest client's - Imperial Tobacco - an advertising campaign on the curtains surrounding hospital beds to promote Silk Cut Extra.

This book is hilarious - just the sort of thing you'd expect from the mastermind behind the original Toilet Duck campaign (the one where the duck flies round the lampshade and then out the window - that was him!).

Hilarious genius!
This is a book of genius. It's rare to find someone who can annoy others while amusing us in quite the inimitable style of the legendary Raymond Delauney.

Did I just say 'amuse'? Not strong enough a word. This man's work is side-splittingly, pants-wettingly, pelvic-bustingly hilarious. You'll be riding to work on the Tube and find yourself giggling at passages you read the night before.

A work of bona-fide genius.