Non-Fiction Memoir English Language

Ok, Let’s do Your Stupid Idea

Patrick Freyne

2020 Penguin

For nonfiction and personal stuff, people need to feel like they’re in safe hands. And if you’re too raw when you approach things, I think it can unsettle the reader. I realised that humour is an important part of my personality. So when I reapproached it I saw the funny side to it and I started writing it in a different tone.

Patrick Freyne

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Ok, Let’s do Your Stupid Idea

Patrick Freyne

2020 Penguin

For nonfiction and personal stuff, people need to feel like they’re in safe hands. And if you’re too raw when you approach things, I think it can unsettle the reader. I realised that humour is an important part of my personality. So when I reapproached it I saw the funny side to it and I started writing it in a different tone.

Patrick Freyne

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Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn’t much care about the charity and was sure he’d end up dead; or the time (aged old enough to know better) he used a magazine as a funnel for fuel when the petrol cap on his band’s van broke.

He has also learned a few things: about the power of group song; about the beauty of physically caring for another human being; about childlessness; about losing friends far too young. Life as seen through the eyes of Patrick Freyne is stranger, funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it. Like David Sedaris or Nora Ephron, he creates an environment all his own – fundamentally comic, sometimes moving, always deeply humane. OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea is a joyous reading experience from an instantly essential new writer.

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