Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective - signed by Richard Ayoade

Ayoade, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0571398200 ISBN 13: 9780571398201

Published by Faber & Faber, 2025

Language: English

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First UK edition first printing and signed by Richard Ayoade without dedication to the title page. Book is fine with tight corners and clean edges. Dustjacket has no visible flaws. Not price clipped at �10.00. Unopened and unread. Nice collectable signed first edition and covered in clear acetate for protection. Signed by the Author sticker to front. Thanks for looking and please check out my other books and signed books on Abe.

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Title: Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective - signed by Richard Ayoade
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0571398200
ISBN 13: 9780571398201
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Dimensions: 1.778 centimeters width by 12.7 centimeters height by 19.812 centimeters depth
Weight: 200 grams
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Richard Ayoade dispenses a lifetime of deepness into over 500 individually digestible thought pellets. Taste, masticate, and savour. You’re about to get extremely wise.

Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne. Men who have searched for meaning with, let’s face it, mixed results. Whither the one who can solve it? Cometh the hour, cometh the Ayoade. Yes: another man (in his way) but also something bigger. Bigger even than a big man. Bigger, perhaps, than a generalisation. Like a spirit, maybe?

Afterthoughts goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.

Richard Ayoade has set down some of his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like...

TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.

If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there’s something wrong with your doors. They shouldn’t be doing that.

Where’s the box to tick if you ARE a robot?

My mother used to say Manners Maketh the Man, but I didn’t think it was very mannerly of her to make fun of my lisp.

About the Author

Richard Ayoade is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne’s novel Submarine for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.

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