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Title: Join Me!
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| Join Me! by Plume A hilarious look at faith | Danny had the idea to start his own cult/religion. Like everything else he does, the results are hilarious.
This book, first and foremost, shows how disillusioned people need something, anything, to believe in. This fact is evinced by how many people are willing to blindly join Danny and follow him. They do not question the direction of the organization until it becomes clear to many of them that there isn't one. Even though the book was hilarious, I found this to be a sad commentary on faith and belief today.
Don't let the above paragraph fool you. The reader is treated to a hilarious account of Danny asking people to join an entity with no purpose, and then scrambling to find a purpose when there is grumbling in the ranks. His neurotic side is in full force, as shown by his imaginary war against an overeager Joinee. His interactions with his increasingly suspicious girlfriend also make this worth the price of admission.
Since this book was published, the Join Me movement has swelled in size to several thousand members. It is heartwarming to see that such a good organization has so many followers.
This is a great book that makes the reader laugh out loud and think about faith at the same time. Highly recommended. | | Join Me! by Plume What an original! | How could I help but buy this book following up reading Wallace's "Yes Man?" Wallace's instincts are never suspect (for me at least). He seems so innocently interested in the outcome of his little experiments, unmindful of the influence he inevitably creates almost in spite of himself. Here he puts an ad in a local newspaper that simply says, "Join me," asked for a photograph and gave his address. What happened next is told with humor and wow, gee whiz astonishment.
A trickle of people joined Danny. For what? You might ask? So did they. And he had no idea. Yet, a movement grew. Yes, that's right, a movement! Ultimately, (after what seems an inordinate amount of time to string people along even though they willingly "joined"), Wallace evolves his movement into one of doing good -random acts of kindness.
This tale is fascinating on two levels. One, it shows how easily people can be convinced to join something just for the sake of joining (scary really). Another is the way in which someone who has absolutely no idea what he is doing, can create a worldwide "organization."
Luckily in this case, Join Me is a cult for good. | | Join Me! by Plume And Thou Spoketh Unto Amazon Readers Saying, Readeth Thy Wallace's Book and for Those That Headeth Thy Advice Days of Gladness W | Join Me is a fascinating and entertaining read that will inspire you as well as have you laughing and laughing especially Danny's first experience at ordering a drink in Paris. This is a sensational read that you won't be able to put down until the last page. I especially like the couple of summary lines of each chapter written like biblical verses.
Danny Wallace decides to put a small advertisement in Loot with simply the words JOIN ME Send one passport sized photo to .... just for the fun of seeing what would happen. He is ecstatic to receive a photograph from Christian Jones meets up with him and discovers he has no answers to his perfectly reasonable questions of what he is joining up to. The photos and new joinees continue to go on and Wallace must decide what his collective is about since he is being told by his friends that one of the joinees is acting like he's going to make a hostile takeover of his people. He must choose between a good and evil. Once this decision is made the flood gates open and his original goal of three people to beat his Swiss relative's achievements of starting a community is retargeted to 1000. Getting 1000 joinees becomes an obsession and his girlfriend is blissfully unaware having instructed him not to play any more stupid boy projects or they would be over.
| | Join Me! by Plume JOIN HIM!! | The new Jesus? No.
But a nice guy, nevertheless, who has a mission.
What is it?
Well, even Danny wasn't certain when he placed an ad in a local paper saying "JOIN ME", complete with a request for your passport photo, and an address you could respond to--but then whoever starts off in life knowing exactly what they are doing?
The end result is a movement of do-gooders, affectionally referred to as "The Karma Army", who are moved to practice random acts of kindness on fridays, up to and including buying an old man a cup of tea, paying someone's bus fare, washing your neighbor's car when they aren't looking, and just generally putting goodness back into an increasingly bitter world.
If you are turning on the news and are just too saddened by it, go grab this book and you'll immediately perk up.
And then, just maybe you'll join the Karma Army too---and try to make the world a better place.
Join Him!
I did. (: | | Join Me! by Plume Want to Change the World? | If you've ever wondered why people join a group, the answer could be for no apparent reason. If you think this sounds ludicrous, just read Danny Wallace's JOIN ME! and you'll discover that it can be true. This book, which is a serious story told in an amusing way, tells of an offbeat journalist who puts an ad in a newspaper with just the words "join me" and information of where he could be contacted. Before long, people responded much to Wallace's surprise. When he decided he has to figure out a purpose for the group, he comes up with an idea that sounds good based on the thoughts of one of his eccentric uncles who wanted to start a utopian society in Switzerland.
The charm of the book comes not from its clever idea, but from Wallace himself. We discover he's a goofball of sorts, lovable and quirky, yet intelligent and serious enough to capture our interest. We read about the way he lives his life, the interactions he has with the "joinees" who are a varied lot at best, and we meet his beleaguered girlfriend Hanne, who more often than not does not know what to do with he eccentric boyfriend, but she's not the static girlfriend with the weight of the world on her shoulders. While readers understand her frustration, they also tend to like Wallace, and there are times we want to say get rid of her. Readers of his latest book YES MAN learn what could have been predicted after reading the book-the relationship does not survive.
At the core of the book it's not a silly story. Rather it shows the goodness of people, a desire to belong, and a belief that belonging to some group--any group, can be positive and at times life changing. It's a feel good book and an enjoyable read, though I will have to admit, it can at times be repetitious so it might have been a "feel better book" if it had been a few pages thinner.
| | Join Me! by Plume Product Description | On a lark, journalist Danny Wallace placed an ad in a small London paper that offered two simple words: "join me." What followed was astounding. From all over the world, thousands of replies poured in, effectively "joining" Danny-but in what, he had no idea. When "Joinees" began referring to him as "The Leader," Danny quickly understood one thing-he had just created a cult.
Join Me quickly became a phenomenon. With the help of a few trusted Joinees and the crackpot leader of a well-established cult, Danny promulgates his uncle's dreams of a Utopian society, struggles to keep his girlfriend, manages to stay humble amidst the newfound celebrity, and remarkably provides a sense of purpose and belonging to Joinees everywhere. |
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