Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain

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What can I say. Here I am, working on books and smashing my non-work- related reading target... And a few times a year I get to talk to people about books in a similar way. But Robin is making me feel like I could be doing this more; better! I am simultaneously jealous and inspired. What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy. Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this second exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror, the dark follow up to 2014’s smash hit debut, Dead Funny. If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4. The UK and Australasia are in the same Blu-ray region (B).

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I chose Bibliomaniac with some trepidation, having yet to find a book about books that doesn’t revere long dead white men and assorted tedious classics, so I was pleased to discover Ince’s taste tends to be rather more eclectic, if not eccentric. Save Lecture 6: Seaways of Hanseatic League & Vikings: Robin & Brigitte Mathews to your collection. Share Lecture 6: Seaways of Hanseatic League & Vikings: Robin & Brigitte Mathews with your friends. The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout. In the second, he talks about undergoing a brain scan, muses on what sleep and dreams reveal about our reality and remembers a moment of transcendence at the Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis.Ince has known Gervais for more than 30 years and has been his support on tour. And he says they still argue about the nature of offence. Bibliomaniac follows him in his quest to discover why he can never own enough books. It is the story of an addiction and romance, published October 10th by Atlantic Books, who previously put out I'm A Joke and his 2021 appreciation of the wonders of science, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity. I love a book that introduces me to new words, in this case ‘mither’ (make a fuss) and ‘ginnel’ (a narrow passage between buildings). Now I just have to introduce them into my vocabulary! See issue one of the new Mensa magazine in March for an extended interview with Robin in which he reveals the key components of his perfect bookshop.

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Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the defining collection of the world’s worst inadvertently hilarious books.From Wigtown to Penzance, the comedian, author and broadcaster Robin Ince has been popping into bookshops across Britain and quite possibly having the time of his life. Yet while his Bibliomaniac bookshop tour has been one of the best things to happen to him, it developed entirely by chance. Robin enjoyed the tour so much that it inspired another book, Bibliomaniac (“the fastest book I’ve ever written”), and he almost immediately set off on the road again while planning the launch of an online Bibliomaniac book club and continuing his other ongoing project, BBC Radio Four’s The Infinite Monkey Cage , again with his good friend Brian Cox. Robin Ince has landed a two-part Radio 4 stand-up special about the brain's relationship with reality and is publishing a book about his obsessive love of books, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. I know that I have a tendency towards melancholy, social anxiety, and self-loathing, and books form a great part of my prescription medication. When I say that books are my drugs, I don't mean that in a throwaway manner; they really do calm me, they really do shut off some of the voices for a while. An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.

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In this erudite and witty book, Robin reveals why scientific wonder isn’t just for the professionals. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more – as well as charting Robin’s own journey with science – The Importance of Being Interested explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. From the glorious appeal of the stars above to why scientific curiosity can encourage much needed intellectual humility, this optimistic and profound book will leave you filled with a thirst for intellectual adventure.I enjoyed this book, but feel it has a relatively narrow audience that would have the same connection to it, hence the three star rating. Robin Ince is quite clearly addicted to buying books with an almost random enthusiasm, and this book is arguably more about that addiction than about the hundred bookstore tour he did that is the hook the book is hung on.