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Yes Man

By: Danny Wallace
Narrated by: Danny Wallace
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Summary

'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my life taking every available chance. I will say Yes to every favour, request, suggestion and invitation. I WILL SWEAR TO SAY YES WHERE ONCE I WOULD SAY NO.'

Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfriend, he really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. That is until one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'say yes more'. These three simple words changed Danny's life forever. Yes Man is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say YES to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. And boy, did it get more interesting.

This is the tie-in audiobook that goes with the 2008 film of the Danny Wallace book - Yes Man - starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel, which is being released by Warner Bros in December 2008.

©2008 Danny Wallace (P)2008 Random House Audiobooks

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Buy the book instead

What did you like best about this story?

manages to be both funny and inspiring

Have you listened to any of uncredited’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Good performance by Danny Wallace

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The whole thing inspired me to say yes to a few opportunities I would normally turn down.

Any additional comments?

Unfortunately the abridged audio book cuts out loads. I bought this as I had enjoyed the original book a while ago and wanted to hear the story again without taking time to read the whole thing. There is so much good content cut though. Some of the stuff that is cut is so essential to the main plot too. They even changed a big part of the ending. Buy the book instead!

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Life Changing audio book

I bought this audio book in preperation for watching the movie with my wife.
I listened to the book over a few days when I was working away from home, staying in hotels...
It is amazing, there are so many things in the book that everyone will relate to.

I was so so so excited when i went to see the movie with my wife after hearing this great book.
The movie is good, but it is incomparible to the genius that is this book.
I recomend everyone gets this book. It is 10000% better than the movie!



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More Maybe than Yes

Firstly, I want to say that this book is at times quite witty and well read. However, I do not agree with other reviewers that it was a 'life changing' experience or anything close. The whole book can be summed up in the mantra that the book itself states so frequently - 'say yes more'. If that advice is life changing than I must be missing something.

I did enjoy parts of the book, but other parts were slow, repetitive and fairly predictable. The fact that this is supposedly a true story gave it some interest, but ultimately I found it quite a laboured journey and one that was fairly un-satisfying in the finish. I suppose if it actually was a true story than that is why nothing more incredible happened. I was expecting something more akin to 'The Dice Man' by Luke Rhinehart (an excellent read by the way).

Anyway, to sum up - it is an OK book. (It passed the time on a long drive to Scotland in my case.) However, I would not really recommend it. Sorry Danny, but it?s a Maybe from me rather than a Yes.

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Thinking of getting it? Say yes

Laughed all the way through, and looked like a mad man in public. Film is different and good too.

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Not life-changing but a nice listen

I feel a bit left out of the hype, as when I told my friends that I was listening the this book the other day, they all started ranting and raving about how 'life-changing' and profound it is, although I didn't find it so significant...perhaps because I generally say yes to most things anyway, as long as they sound like fun!

However I did find it a gentle and easy listen, read well by the author and with some moments that made me smile and even laugh.

The audiobook's heart is definitely in the right place and its principals are wonderful, although I just felt there was something missing somehow...though every listener would definitely do well to take away the ethos of this audiobook and start to smile, perform random acts of kindness and declare a big fat YES more!

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Inspiring 

This is a great book, that leaves you feeling hopeful, I would recommend to anyone. It’s a must read.

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Absolutely Brilliant

The story is fabulous, one of the reasons is the way Danny Wallace reads his novel. So engaging. Loved it.

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Brilliant

A most enjoyable book that I’m glad that somebody recommended to me. Appears that I’ve got a few things to say yes to my own life starting today.

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Still makes me laugh

So like many, I've read the book which had me literally crying with laughter! This abridged version still had me laughing out loud, Danny's delivery is exactly what I needed but just wish it was the true, longer version!

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Very abridged, but still brilliant

I read it a long time ago in paperback, and couldn't really figure out if 5 hours meant it was heavily abridged, or just a little. Sadly, I think the answer is the former.

For sake of keeping the story together, you're really only getting the major plot points, and not what I always think of as the "fun and games" section of a story, which is actually the best part. The first half of a comedy movie, say, where the inconsequential but funniest bits happen, before the main character suddenly gets hit in the middle with some narrative device that introduces tension or conflict in order to have a satisfying ending where the protagonist overcomes something.

So, really, we're lacking some of the best bits of the book. Gladly, though, Danny's writing is consistently funny and very engaging, so what we do have here is still great, and is heavily carried by his performance, which is just as good as you'd expect for a voice actor and radio host, relating his (perhaps?) tall tale of own his oversized adventures.

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