Part-comedy, part-travelogue, part-memoir, this book presents the story of what can happen when you track down your past, and of where the friendships you thought you'd outgrown can take you today.
Having been dumped by his girlfriend, Danny really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead, he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. This is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting.
Placing an advert on the internet, in this modern take on Utopia, the author aims to say a million things about the world in which we live. It is the story of his attempt to recruit 100 people to create a perfect world.
Presents the story of what happened when the author decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. This is the tie-in book that goes with the 2008 film of the Danny Wallace book - Yes Man - starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel.
In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a Random Act of Kindness every Friday. As a result, his thousands of followers (dubbed the Karma Army), without warning, made people happier the length and breadth of the country.
Danny Wallace wanted to write about a place, which is special and crucial to our existence. He then heard about a manhole cover, on a small street, in a small town, tucked away in a remote part of Idaho. The cover had been declared the Centre of the Universe. And the name of the town? Wallace. It was a cosmic coincidence Danny couldn't resist.
Danny Wallace finds an old address book containing just twelve names. His best mates as a kid. Where are they now? Who are they now? And how are they coping with being grown-up too? And so begins a journey from A-Z, tracking down and meeting his old gang. But how will they respond to a man they haven't seen in twenty years?
Danny Wallace was bored. Just to see what would happen, he placed a whimsical ad in a local London paper. It said, simply, 'Join Me'. Within a month, he was receiving letters and emails from teachers, mechanics, sales reps, vicars, schoolchildren and pensioners - all pledging allegiance to his cause. But no one knew what his cause was.
Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints down the pub for lattes and brunch. For the first time in his life, he's feeling, well ...grown-up. But something's missing. Something he can't quite put his finger on. Until he finds an old address book, containing just twelve names.
Having been dumped by his girlfriend, Danny wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them, calling instead of meeting them. That is until one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'say yes more' - three words that changed his life forever.
For ten years Danny Wallace has been coping with the despair and acute frustration that comes after being diagnosed with an incurable illness. The former Southampton, Manchester United and England winger, stricken by multiple sclerosis, has days when he can hardly move or talk. As a player, Wallace was famous for his blistering speed.