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On the subject of Alan Partridge, I highly recommend the two books, "I, Partridge" and "Nomad". This is my Goodreads-review of Nomad: This is one of the funni

On the subject of Alan Partridge, I highly recommend the two books, "I, Partridge" and "Nomad". This is my Goodreads-review of Nomad: This is one of the funniest books I have read. I just love the Alan Partridge character, with all his insecurities and petty attempts to show off. I read the first book, I Partridge, and this is even better. In Nomad, Alan tells the story of his walk to honour his father – he will walk from Norwich to the Dungeness Nuclear Power Station. Not only is the book packed with hilarious episodes, the writing is also fabulously bad – full of examples like “the wind whistling through my hair like a wind whistle”. Highly recommended.

stevekemp 3y ago
I, Partridge had some outstanding footnotes, and from memory it also had a playlist at the back with notes to play specific tracks at particular chapters/moments. Alan Partridge is very underrated, and I'm surprised that so many here have heard of him - although hacker news has a large UK presence his shows are not those that have been exported widely to the best of my knowledge. There's just something so British about that kind of character, where you're half laughing with him (1) and half laughing at how blissfully unaware and cringey he is. (Much like David Brent in the UK/original "The Office", although there's a long history of that style of character) I actually paid for a Partridge-tribute to sing a happy-birthday song for my (Finnish) wife, on Cameo. We were both very impressed at how well his message was 100% in-character for the real AP. 1: Needless to say I had the last laugh.
InCityDreams 3y ago
Both are available on you tube, narrated by coogan. My us friends don't understand either.
rorads 3y ago
I genuinely feel that these two books, and the audiobooks even more so, are full blown genius. The character has been steeping in his own mythology and metatext for decades, and these books use that to such a wonderful effect. I think they hold up as amazing comedy in their own right, but having the character describe events we’ve seen in previous formats but through a warped narrative is a wonderful and uncommon device, and the intentional bad writing is so joyous.

stevekemp 3y ago

I, Partridge had some outstanding footnotes, and from memory it also had a playlist at the back with notes to play specific tracks at particular chapters/moments. Alan Partridge is very underrated, and I'm surprised that so many here have heard of him - although hacker news has a large UK presence his shows are not those that have been exported widely to the best of my knowledge. There's just something so British about that kind of character, where you're half laughing with him (1) and half laughing at how blissfully unaware and cringey he is. (Much like David Brent in the UK/original "The Office", although there's a long history of that style of character) I actually paid for a Partridge-tribute to sing a happy-birthday song for my (Finnish) wife, on Cameo. We were both very impressed at how well his message was 100% in-character for the real AP. 1: Needless to say I had the last laugh.

InCityDreams 3y ago

Both are available on you tube, narrated by coogan. My us friends don't understand either.

rorads 3y ago

I genuinely feel that these two books, and the audiobooks even more so, are full blown genius. The character has been steeping in his own mythology and metatext for decades, and these books use that to such a wonderful effect. I think they hold up as amazing comedy in their own right, but having the character describe events we’ve seen in previous formats but through a warped narrative is a wonderful and uncommon device, and the intentional bad writing is so joyous.