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Join Me: The True Story of a Man Who Started a Cult by Accident

Author: Danny Wallace
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

63 reviews
Sales Rank: 587

Media: Paperback
Pages: 397
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0091895820
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.1
EAN: 9780091895822
ASIN: 0091895820

Publication Date: June 3, 2004
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Extremely funny and a good way to just make the world a better place October 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Just do something good for somebody at least once a week. A very nice concept, even if you decide to never join Danny's collective.

Read how this very funny guy, with a lot of time in his hands, formed a collective that does good things just for the sake of it. A good testament about how normal people, with no religious or political agendas, can be very creative and motivate people. It shows that leaders come in all shapes and sizes, even the ones that didn't intend to be leaders in the first place! :)

4 out of 5 stars

enjoyable September 27, 2006
It was enjoyable. He reminds me of John Donoghue (you know,
the idiot who went around the bizarre named places in the UK with his dog) in a way: same fixation on completely random projects; the same mini-rants against all sort of highly innocuous things; the same funny way of writing, while avoiding the issue of actually going somewhere with the book ;-) This book seemed a bit contrived but hey, a fun read nevertheless.

5 out of 5 stars

Your "Collective" Needs YOU August 30, 2006
A cracking good read. Danny plots a dangerous route on his mission to recruit 1000 joinees to his "collective" while trying to keep his boy-project secret from his long-suffering girlfriend, Hanne. Oh, yes, he also has to find a purpose for his Karma Army of joinees.

From the banks of Loch Ness, with a heavy-metal loving vicar to gate-crashing a Parisian birthday party, his roller-coaster journey leaves you wandering about the state of his mind....and his finances.

Naive? Who knows, who cares. Funny from start to finish. Recommend you read this before Danny's Yes Man book.

5 out of 5 stars

Wallace's World June 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

No single person has graced the land of literature with so much honesty and vibrance as Mr Danny Wallace.He does things that people like you and me can never consider.He writes with no anger or quarl about the things that have happened to him.Setting up a 'collective not a cult' is an achievement but to change normal peoples everyday lives is something that takes a gift few of us have.Join Me has something other books can't seem to grasp.You enjoy the times he enjoys and you feel sad when he feels sad.You are gripped by the way he puts the things that are most important to him on the line to do this.Your life will have less karma if you don't read this book.Join me and enjoy Danny's dream.

3 out of 5 stars

Nice idea, shame about the song. February 25, 2006
6 out of 15 found this review helpful

Very much in the vein of Dave Gorman and Tony Hawks, this is a mildly amusing tale of setting a goal, attaining it and doing some good along the way. That said, it is all very blokey, comes across as little more than a student prank played out by someone who should have long grown out of it and my main sympathies throughout were with the author's girlfriend. Easy to read, funny in places and, if you can put up with the author's self-obsessions, worth a read. Author should get out more.