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James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster
Narrated by: James Acaster
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About this listen

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--king 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 book tells you to. Including helping us promote the book by tweeting about it.

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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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I’m a huge James Acaster fan but oh dear. As he is known not to be on social media I was basically expecting a truthful yet wackily hilarious account of how he went about it, what he had taken from it etc…but instead it is a string of obviously fictional and not particularly funny anecdotes…I don’t know what anyone actually wanting to learn from James’s experience would take from it. Nevertheless it’s mildly funny and his narration alone makes it worth it, if you like his voice.

Oh James…

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Very funny.Even funnier was being told by someone this was a real self help book .
It isn't.There are some real insights into the risks of social media but these are part of a surreal tale featuring the comedy persona of the author.
James Acaster is a brilliant comedian.He is also an excellent and original comedy writer .

Genie writes a book

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This made me laugh out loud many many times. Entertaining and witty - definitely recommended if you want to laugh!

Hilarious!

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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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despite the statement in the opening chapter, this is most definitely not a self help book. however somehow between the increasingly whimsical developments and predicaments, i found it helped me greatly

absolutely crackers but loved it

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The whole thing was so creative and funny and there’s definitely a message in there somewhere ! Definitely recommend

Crazy, funny, VERY James Acaster

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if you Really expected this to be an actual how to quit social media book then YOU ARE the Joke.

It's a decent listen but not as good as his other books

its not what you think but is that a good thing ?

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a massive fan of James but this makes me think he really needs help. turned into utter nonsense

sadly by the end I couldn't wait for it to finish

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