Title: Straight Outta Crawley
Author: Romesh Ranganathan
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 247
Rating: 4/5
First thing’s first – if you don’t know who Romesh Ranganathan is (he’s a British comedian), you’re probably not going to enjoy this quite as much as you would if you were a Romesh fan going into it.
Part of that is because Straight Outta Crawley is a memoir, and so while there’s a ton of comedy in it due to the fact that Romesh is an inherently funny guy, it’s also going to help if you want to know a little bit more about what makes him tick.
Straight Outta Crawley gets its name from the fact that Romesh is a huge hip-hop fan, and he even made it to the finals of a UK rap competition. He talks about all of this stuff in the memoir, as well as how he went from being a teacher at a secondary school to being one of the UK’s premier comedians.
Romesh’s sense of humour is pretty similar to mine, which made his memoir a hell of a lot of fun to read, and I also love the fact that he’s a fellow vegan. He even talks about that in a couple of places, but not in a way that feels preachy or condescending.
All in all then, it’s definitely one I’d recommend reading. It’ll make you smile and there’s not much more you could ask for.
