The Moaning Of Life: The Worldly Wisdom Of Karl Pilkington (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The Moaning of Life is basically or more in depth look into the various travels and experiences of Karl Pilkington while making the TV series of the same. It's written by Karl himself and gives you much more insight into how he felt about the various things he saw and did as well as being full of funny anecdotes etc.The book is very funny and had me laughing plenty of times. If you're a Karl Pilkington fan it's a must read but if you have seen the TV show it might take some of the enjoyment away as you will have seen many of the scenarios before. Either way it is very much worth the read. I will purchase anything by Karl Pilkington as I have loved most of his worked since I accidentally stumbled upon him one night while flicking through late night tv. I was homeless at the time, crashing on a friends couch. My friend had work the next morning so as she handed me the remote she reminded me to keep it down. News, flick, late night music, flick, game shows, flick, inappropriate adult advertisements, irk, flick! Wait on.. bold white guy sitting on a piece of tree sliding down an ashy mountain with a fellow wearing nothing but some material as a skirt?! Can this be real?! Oh it was, and I have been hooked ever since. For the first time in a long time I had encountered someone who had me cacking to the point of wetting myself. My family are English (though they have since migrated) and I have to listen to them moan quite frequently. I wish they had the comedic undertones that Karl seems to have. Though perhaps if you had to live with it it wouldn't be like that at all. In fact, it'd probably just wear off and you piss you off after a while. You know, too much of a good things ruins it and all - like Karls cake philosophy. Anyways, this book was one of my favourites and I highly recommend it. I started reading Karlology and even though I didn't enjoy it all that much (so much so that I haven't been able to finish it :/ sorry Karl, I've heard you tell most of those stories in your podcasts before mate. I don't wanna read about them too)I still continue to purchase his others. This one though, was a gift. So I knew even if I did get bored I had to finish it.. so they didn't waste their money of course. I didn't however dislike it! In fact I loved it! It's been a while since I've had cable and Karl doesn't air on free tv out here anymore so I hadn't seen The Moaning of Life tv series. All of this was new and I quite thoroughly enjoyed it. As much as I enjoy hearing about Karl's encounters with giant pandas and traveling gypsies or villagers trying to get him to jump of a bamboo ladder, it's nice to see he thinks about the real issues to. Love, money, happiness, death. They're all things I think about all the time so it was nice to hear a new perspective. I really wanted to point out how much I was dreading the last chapter though. I hate the idea that I'll be dead one day. What a cope out. I'd rather live for eternity than be remembered for eternity. So I was dreading the ending. I was expecting it to plant little thought bubbles that kept me up all night with anxiety, but it didn't. He managed to make the whole thing so light-hearted. I found myself laughing my butt off and picturing myself living inside of a chocolate bar in a few decades. Please, wrap my in foil and chuck me in a 'favourites' themed coffin. At least then if I happen to wake up one day at least I'll have a blanket to keep me warm til I figure out how to dig myself out. Maybe you should leave me a little spade too, but just a spade, I don't wanna end up like Suzanne with the entire kitchen sink with me haha.Anyways, if your a fan of Karls give this a read. If not, get on board and give it a read anyways! Karl seems to be much happier without Ricky and he's covering things with a lot more depth to them. Don't get me wrong, he still has a moan and some things he's doing is well outside of the norms so the stories are still very exciting, don't be put off by the changes. I never really liked Ricky to begin with. The only good thing he's done in my liking is introducing the world to Karl, so I guess we owe him that.Fun drinking game for while you read Karls books alone, curled up on the couch on a Friday evening? Easy! Take a sip every time he says 'crisps' or 'twix'. Trust me, you'll be waking up with headaches every Saturday as if you spent the day with him listening to him moaning. Very authentic, ha!
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