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** spoiler alert ** If you've read the bad reviews of the Yes Man movie, don't let it stop you from reading this- even if you're American and therefore your copy of the book has Jim Carrey skipping on the cover. After Danny Wallace realized he was being anti-social and a man on the bus told him to say yes more, he resolved to say yes to everything, no matter what kind of a situation it put him in. Although he ends up telling a man in a bar that yes, he was looking at his girlfriend, Danny quickly realizes that his life is improving: because of a string of yeses, (going out with a friend, giving a homeless man some change, needing to buy a paper to actually get change)he wins a scratch-off lottery game. The second I read Danny's lines about how if he hadn't said yes, he wouldn't have one, I was sold to the book. Danny ends up poking monks, being trapped behind a gyrating Spanish pop star, doing drugs in Amsterdam, meeting a guy in Barcelona who says yes to everything, being chased by a giant lizard in Singapore (to which the Barcelonean guy can only reply atomico), and falling in love. This sounds kind of crazy, but I would love to be chased by giant lizards. Stuff happened to Danny while he was saying yes, the kind of stuff that people dream about. All because he said yes. At the beginning of the book, Danny advises people not to necessarily do what he did, but to be more open to what the world has in store for you. He's funny while making you think. And while it won't necessarily change your life, it will make you realize that the best things that happen to you come when you say yes.

2022-11-14 18:23