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Title: Deep Thoughts

Author: Jack Handey

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 96

Rating: 10/10

Jack Handey – Deep Thoughts

The title says it all – this book is simply a collection of deep thoughts from the mind of Jack Handey, an Emmy Award-winner and co-producer of Saturday Night Live, where these thoughts first appeared. Oh, you need an example? How’s this?

“As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable – until I realised it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!”

How could you not read this?

Jack Handy

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Josh Weltman – Seducing Strangers | Review

Title: Seducing Strangers

Author: Josh Weltman

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 180

Rating: 9/10

Josh Weltman – Seducing Strangers

Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, I received a copy of this for free to review.

This book breaks all of the rules. Seriously, it has two subtitles. I have no idea of how to punctuate this within a normal sentence, so I’m just going to do this:

Josh Weltman, co-producer of Mad Men – Seducing Strangers: How to Get People to Buy What You’re Selling [The Little Black Book of Advertising Secrets]

Okay, now that that’s out of the way, we can talk about the actual book! Weltman is an advertising industry veteran with a lot of knowledge to teach you, in the form of a series of perceptive essays on all sorts of different subjects. On occasion, it feels a little bit too gut-based for my liking, but then the author does talk about this exact phenomenon inside the manuscript.

So it’s a pretty good book for anyone who works agency-side, and my ‘executive’ creative director would love it.