{"product_id":"afterthoughts-wisdom-for-the-unreflective-9780571398201","title":"Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ayoade dispenses a lifetime of deepness into over 500 individually digestible thought pellets. Taste, masticate, and savour. You're about to get extremely wise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlato, Aristotle, Montaigne. Men who have searched for meaning with, let's face it, mixed results. Whither the one who can solve it? Cometh the hour, cometh the Ayoade. Yes: another man (in his way) but also something bigger. Bigger even than a big man. Bigger, perhaps, than a generalisation. Like a spirit, maybe? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterthoughts\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Ayoade has set down some of his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like...\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your doors. They shouldn't be doing that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere's the box to tick if you ARE a robot?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy mother used to say Manners Maketh the Man, but I didn't think it was very mannerly of her to make fun of my lisp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAyoade, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRichard Ayoade\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing \u003ci\u003eGarth Marenghi's Darkplace\u003c\/i\u003e, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne's novel \u003ci\u003eSubmarine\u003c\/i\u003e for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film \u003ci\u003eThe Double\u003c\/i\u003e. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in \u003ci\u003eGarth Marenghi's Darkplace\u003c\/i\u003e and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe IT Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676284322066,"sku":"9780571398201","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52cd7c89-6953-43dc-8473-9dd4eabee22d.jpg?v=1761052371","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/afterthoughts-wisdom-for-the-unreflective-9780571398201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}