Product Description

Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out of commuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasoned traveller as the blow–up pillow and water sterilising tablets.

In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set their sights on the scourge of the modern office worker – other office workers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with their annoying habits and depressing clothes. Pains on Trains is dedicated to the rush–hour veteran and consists of a ′pain–spotting′ guide to the very worst people you meet on your daily commute. Each painful character is illustrated in their usual context and supported by a short narrative.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48172 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-26
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 218 pages

Review
"…start ‘pain spotting’ and put the fun back in to commuting…" (Publishing News, 12 September 2003)

"…A new book Pains on Trains offers advice on taking it all [irritating commuters] in your stride..."(Daily Mirror, 24 October 2003)

"…hugely funny…" (Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003)

"…Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantly Observed look at the different types of people…" (Edinburgh Evening News, 1 November 2003)

"…hugely funny…" (Cambridge Evening News, 8 November 2003)

"…hysterically accurate…" (Southern Daily Echo, 8 November 2003)

"…brilliantly observed…" (East Anglian Daily Times, November 2003)

"…hysterically accurate…with wonderful descriptions and illustrations…" (Irish News (Belfast), 1 November 2003)

"... consists of 50 different types of people who annoy the authors on trains..." (The Guardian, April 2006)

Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003
"..hugely funny.."

Edinburgh Evening News, 1 November 2003
"..Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantly Observed look at the different types of people.."

Customer Reviews

Up there with the Worst Case Scenarios
Wonderful little book - lots of outrageous stories and observation, it's up there with the Worst Case Scenario books, but with more belly laughs. I would also like to report a Flamboyant Groin sighting on the Central Line this morning. He was so flamboyant, he was practically a Double Seater. Would have been good if the book had included tear-out advice slips for handing out to offending Pains once you've spotted them. Essential reading.

Must read travel book
As a long term (and long suffering) commuter, this book is just fantastic. Not only has it captured all the people that have made my commuting life a misery (not to mention Network Rail and the train operating companies), but it has done so in such an amusing yet satirical way. Each pain is so well described that you can't help but identify with them, which brings back so many stories from my own daily commute - equally bizarre, funny and at times all too depressing. This is an inspired book well written and exceptionally well illustrated. What I don't understand is why no one has written it before. I especially love the vomiter...one of my most hated pains. If you want a fun companion on your travels, buy this book. I can't wait for Pains on the Payroll!

Ease your commuting stress
I commute in from East Croydon on South Central. Possibly the worst train company in the world. The reason I love this book is that it has stopped me from being irritated by nightmare people and I just laugh to myself instead.

For example - the person who can never be on time and stops the train leaving by opening the door as it is pulling away from the platform. Or the people who take enough provisions in their backpack to climb Everest everyday.

This book is a wonderful little time waster which will momentarily help ease the pain of commuting. You probably won't read it more than once though - although having it delivered to the office will cause 10 minutes of downtime while everyone compares the characters to people on their trains.