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This book boasts on its cover that Metro had reviewed it as "comic brilliance". Metro is a free newspaper mostly read and then chucked away by train commuters in southern UK. Metro is cobbled together from press releases and agency copy and you can rest assured that any "review" in this rag is at best a hasty rewrite of the publisher's press release.



The book is not brilliant and it is not particularly funny either. Unless you find countless variations on the "how drunk was I last night?!" anecdote especially amusing. But this is not such a bad book; the best chapters (they're written alternately) are by Ian Vince who tends to address bigger topics like the Slow Movement, psychogeography (ley lines etc), green issues, and so on. While these aren't explored in any particular depth they are a welcome relief from all the laddish beer drinking, ciggie smoking, and battery charging which form the basis for Dan Kieran's chapters.



The book gives us grounds for optimism that the UK is not as crap as some of us think it is, and that people generally are willing to help one another. That is a refreshing message amid widespread cynicism. So: on the whole... 3 Men In A Float is worth a try.