Kitty Flanagan: 488 Rules for Life |
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Providing you with the antidote to every annoying little thing these rules are not made to be broken.
488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book because it's not you who needs help it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll a lot of people just don't know the rules.
But thanks to Kitty Flanagan's comprehensive guide to modern behaviour our world will soon be a much better place. A place where people don't ruin the fruit salad by putting banana in it ... where your co-workers respect your olfactory system and don't reheat their fish curry in the office microwave ... where middle aged men don't have ponytails ...
What started as a joke on Kitty Flanagan's popular segment on ABC TV's The Weekly is now a quintessential reference book with the power to change society. (Or at least make it a bit less irritating.)
What people are (Kitty Flanagan is) saying about this book:
'You're welcome everyone.'
'Thank god for me.'
'I'd rather be sad and lonely but right.'
'There's not actually 488 rules in here but it sure feels like it'. is a book for anyone who believes good manners and common sense are the way forward. It's time to make the world idiot-free and lovely.'
About Kitty Flanagan
At school Kitty was a small stick-like child with very large front teeth and fuzzy hair. Nothing much has changed. After several attempts at university studying things as diverse as Spanish Poetry and P.E teaching the government introduced HECS and the free ride was over. No more enrolling for a semester of tertiary good times then dropping out.
Advertising beckoned because it seemed like the job that paid the most money for the least amount of qualifications. And for five years she masqueraded as a copywriter. Eventually she was fired. She doesn't know why and more importantly she doesn't care. So then she tried doing stand-up. And then she got a job on Full Frontal (a sketch show not a nudie mag). And then she moved to London and did stand-up...heaps of it.
There was another sketch show an English one this time cryptically titled The Sketch Show. And there was a short film that won a few awards. After that she wrote stuff for the BBC and Channel Four with writing partner Julia Davis of Nighty Night fame. Then Kitty moved back to Australia where she is now probably best known for her for her regular Tuesday appearances on The Project and most recently for her role as Rhonda in Working Dog's Utopia on the ABC. She also has a segment on Charlie Pickering's show The Weekly. Aware that stand-up is like a sport that must be practiced Kitty tours constantly.
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Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life
By: Kitty Flanagan
ISBN: 9781760875305
Number Of Pages: 320
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I've just loved reading this book. I've had to limit my daily "intake" so I didn't read it all in 2 days. Visitors have come & enjoyed it -you can pick it up & read just one "rule" in the few minutes or read a whole section. I love that I can relate to it as it is definitely Australian (even if I wouldn't follow the rule). I'd be interested in how internationals find it...I'm sure it'd do well for people from the UK...I think Kitty could write another book on how our neighbours across the pacific found reading it (that big country just over 15000km away)...
Rule 229 - Buy this book
Rule 230 - you will like this book !!. Even if you don't agree with all the rules you will be nodding your head in agreement with more than half of what Kitty lays down. Rule 231 - get this book!!
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