Pains on Trains: The Commuter's Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travelling Companions
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841125644 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Not funny but gross-- do we really need to know details about 6 different kinds of Nose Pickers? Green Stone The authors, clearly having spent much much more time on trains than they would have liked, have written this book covering 50 of the most common types of annoying fellow travelers found on commuter trains. These are presented in alphabetical order, from "The Beggar" through "The Fast Fooder" , "THe Mammoth", on to "The Youth." For each type, there is an annoyance rating, 1 to 10, a prevalence/rarity rating, 1
"…start ‘pain spotting’ and put the fun back in to commuting…" (Publishing News, 12 September 2003)"…A new book Pains on Trains offers advice on taking it all irritating commuters in your stride"(Daily Mirror, 24 October 2003)"…hugely funny…" (Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003)"…Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantly Observed look at the different types of people…" (Edinburgh Evening News, 1 November 2003)"…hugely funny…" (Cambridge Evening News, 8 November 2003)"…hysterically accurate…" (Southern Daily Echo, 8 November 2003)"…brilliantly observed…" (East Anglian Daily Times, November 2003)"…hysterically accurate…with wonderful descriptions and illustrations…" (Irish News (Belfast), 1 November 2003)".I like to think of myself as fairly curmudgeonly, though I am mild-mannered compared to Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves who have produced a book called Pains on Trainsthis consists of 50 different types of people who annoy the authors on trains" (The Guardian, April 2006)
Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out of commuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasoned traveller as the blow--up pillow and water sterilising tablets. In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set their sights on the scourge of the modern office worker -- other office workers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with their annoying habits and depressing clothes. Each painful character is illustrated in their usual context and supported by a short narrative.. Pains on Trains is dedicated to the rush--hour veteran and consists of a a pain--spottinga guide to the very worst people you meet on your daily commute