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James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

by James Acaster

A comic guide to life offline

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  • Bestseller

    Sunday Times bestseller

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A comic guide to life offline

James Acaster frames quitting social media as a problem of what to do with the habits and interactions it leaves behind. The book’s premise turns familiar online activities—keeping up with friends, looking at dog photos, arguing, and following public figures—into real-world substitutes, including joining the scouts and trying physical activities. A mysterious benefactor and the growing Tangfastic Crew add an absurd, deliberately elaborate frame to this self-help setup. The subject is less a general argument about technology than a comic exploration of how online routines might be replaced by activities beyond the screen.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in humorous takes on social media and life offline.
  • Readers curious about self-help presented through an absurd comic premise.
  • Fans of James Acaster’s humor, as suggested by the book’s humor classification and description.

Themes

Social media and offline lifeHabits and substitutionLoneliness and connectionHumor and self-help

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Book overview

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.

In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when the withdrawal symptoms hit him, he realised in order to stay clean he'd have to replace everything social media gave him with three-dimensional, real-life activities.

Employing the help of a mysterious, wealthy benefactor named Clancy Dellahue, and an ever-growing gang of misfits (aka the Tangfastic Crew), James found ways to replace his online friends (he joined the scouts) and spy on his exes (climbing ropes, zip lines, fake moustache) as well as anonymously bullying strangers, seeing photos of everyone's dogs, getting public figures fired, arguing with everybody about everything, and so much more.

His life is amazing and yours could be too if you buy JAMES ACASTER'S GUIDE TO QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING THE BEST YOU YOU CAN BE AND SAVING YOURSELF FROM LONELINESS VOL. 1.
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