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James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster
Narrated by: James Acaster
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 This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.

When James quit all forms of social media in 2019 he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f*cking Zuckerberg). He knew that in order to stay clean he'd have to replace everything social media used to give him with three-dimensional, real-life activities.

And so it was that James found ways to anonymously bully strangers, see photos of everyone's dogs, get invited to as many parties as possible, immediately know about all celebrity deaths, get public figures fired, argue with everybody about everything, and so much more without even owning a phone (he painted over the screen of his old one to stop himself looking at Instagram).

His life is amazing and yours could be too if you buy JAMES ACASTER'S GUIDE TO QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING THE BEST YOU YOU CAN BE AND SAVING YOURSELF FROM LONELINESS VOL. 1.

You will also need to do everything the audiobook tells you to. Including helping us promote the audiobook by tweeting about it.

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Loved this so much that I thought I'd leave a glowing review that James will never read.

James Acaster's classic scrapes was so funny because it was true. This was so funny because it wasn't. I loved the way James's situation got more and more extreme whilst roping in a wonderful cast of characters. The author has such a good voice and such a good understanding of vocabulary that I couldn't stop listening.

Now I'm off to listen to it again and to fantasize about how delicious James Acaster's golden syrup locks must be.

Funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

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Worth it for that joke alone. I absolutely love this book. I had to also pause it from laughing at his TV review he put in a local Church magazine.

The whole thing very much feels like his Netflix stand up's style of comedy a lot more than his latest confessional stand up (I think it was called Lasagna).

Just a warning, it is borderline useless if you're actually trying to give up socal media. What it is is lots and lots of fun and a fairly good take downs of some of the strange things we do online which would not be acceptable in the real world.

Top notch stuff. I think some of the negative reviews might be wanting podcast James Acaster or Would I Lie To You James Acaster, but they're getting raw stand-up James Acaster here.

So I just want to let everyone know which james acaster you're getting in this book, I like both, and I really loved seven hours of absurdism and puns applied to an in-depth look at online behaviour.

Bird surgery gives you wings.

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This audiobook was an utter waste of my time. 5 stars - David Farrow-Grogan

An utter waste of my time. 5 stars.

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This feels a lot like the classic James Acaster story from a standup set, where he takes a central narrative thread (e.g. going on witness protection) and goes on exhilarating and wild, obviously fictional, detours along the way. It suffers a bit for stretching that out for so long, but there are plenty of moments that I laughed out loud at, even if the topic of the negative effects of the internet is pretty well-trodden ground by this point. I recommend James Acaster's Classic Scrapes first, as his real stories are funnier than the made-up ones here, but it's still worth a listen for any Acaster completionist, and the audiobook is undoubtedly the best way to consume it.

Like a classic surreal James Acaster standup story

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it's joyful nonsense and jokes the whole way through. I think James' reading also conveyed a lot of his humour.

The book is exactly like the sample and I loved it

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