X Marks the Spot: We're All Going to Die! So... What's for Lunch? (Happy Accidents Book 3) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"Exit, your usual way of looking at everyday things. Enter, David Boyne. Life, death, lunch, Manhattan transit, the speed of light -- this little group of essays breathlessly covers a lot of territory."-- Krasna Svaboda, author, Eight Great Things About DeathX MARKS THE SPOT:We're All Going to Die! Okay. So what's for Lunch?Happy Accidents, Volume 3by David BoyneMore seriously funny offbeat hyper-personal essays and stories that Boldly Explore the Irony in the Ordinary!In this collection of personal essays and stories the author attempts to prove his startling, radical, controversial assertion that: We're all going to die!We ride shotgun as David Boyne arrives in a new city and is handed a map by a mysterious stranger (X Marks The Spot), or receives an angry email (Grudge Holding Letter Bombing Shit Listers), or strains to suppress his inherited East Coast sarcasm as he mingles with goofy new-age Californians (It's All Good). We breeze down a wacky detour back to high school (We're All Going To Die!) but then take a wrong turn and find ourselves lost in the New England woods (Just Passing Through). We will stand beside our ironic guide on the rim of the Grand Canyon on New Year's Eve (Fast Moving High Followed By Lingering Depression), and ride a bike with him through a grid-locked Manhattan (Past Present Future). We will drive a sick child to the emergency room (Breathing Lessons) and explore the meaning of an obscure Japanese man's obituary (Either And Or).At the end of this wild, bumpy, exhilarating, thought-provoking odyssey through the ordinary -- we will look up and find that we are right back where we started. The world around us is exactly the same as when we left it. But we are not. -----