Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad

The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington


Bucket list books are becoming popular. "1000 places to go before you die" and the like.  Well Karl Pilkington points out that the trouble with these lists is that they're things someone else wants to do.

Ricky and Steve compose a list of 100 things to do before you die.  I've done 25 of them.  24 if you don't count #89 Go to the Burning Man Festival in California.  It's been a long time since it moved from a San Francisco beach to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.  It's one of the items that he hasn't done.

Karl addresses all of them by the end of the book albeit in a random order.  Ricky and Steve try to force him to do ones he's reticent to do like bungee jumping.  I'm with him on that one.  I have no desire to fall and bounce from my ankles.  His adventures are taped for his television series.

I've always enjoyed British humour and Karl is incredibly funny.  This book taught me how to make my last Toastmaster speech generate laughter from my audience.  If you like Simon Pegg of "Shaun of the Dead" and "Run, Fat Boy, Run" (my favourite movie) then you'll like Karl.

The items that he doesn't do are just as much fun to read as the ones that he does.  The banter between Karl, Ricky, and Steve is included in small dialogue boxes.  I'm glad I wasn't the one getting sent to most of these places.  Meeting the pet hippo would have been cool but not emptying honey buckets.

An entertaining read I sailed through this book.  I have the preceding book now and am ready to embark on further adventures with Karl.

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