By Toby Young
With a big movie of the way to Lose associates and Alienate humans approximately to be published (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there hasn't ever been a greater time to get pleasure from this laugh-out-loud memoir from everyone’s favourite “professional failurist.” The Sound of No arms Clapping unearths Toby pursuing a glamorous occupation in Hollywood whereas attempting to stability his new existence as a husband and dad or mum. Failure-and fatherhood-have by no means been funnier.
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The sight of the remnants of my bachelor life lined up outside my flat in black plastic rubbish bags was almost too much to bear. I found this ordeal particularly grueling because the place I was moving out of was so much nicer than the place I was moving into. It had taken me eighteen months of dogged, painstaking research to find that apartment and I’d lived in it for three-and-a-half years. Real estate brokers the world over say there are three things that determine a property’s value—location, location, location—and mine couldn’t have been better situated: it was opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in the West Village.
I found this ordeal particularly grueling because the place I was moving out of was so much nicer than the place I was moving into. It had taken me eighteen months of dogged, painstaking research to find that apartment and I’d lived in it for three-and-a-half years. Real estate brokers the world over say there are three things that determine a property’s value—location, location, location—and mine couldn’t have been better situated: it was opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in the West Village. To begin with, the packing-up process was fairly painless.
Qxd 4/4/06 10:05 PM Page 15 The Sound of No Hands Clapping 15 it acquired a completely unexpected topicality when thirty-nine people were killed at a stadium in Belgium after an outbreak of violence at the European Cup Final, in which Liverpool was playing Juventus. Ann Barr rewrote the first paragraph, linking it to the tragedy, and ran the article on the front page of her section four days later. To the uninformed reader, it looked as though I’d cobbled this piece together in response to the events of May 29 when, in fact, I’d been painstakingly researching it for three months.