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Yes Man | 
 enlarge | Author: Danny Wallace
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 211906
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416918345
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781416918349
ASIN: 1416918345
Publication Date: June 6, 2006
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Product Description
Recently single, Danny Wallace was falling into loneliness and isolation. When a stranger on a bus advises, "Say yes more," Wallace vows to say yes to every offer, invitation, challenge, and chance.In Yes Man, Wallace recounts his months-long commitment to complete openness with profound insight and humbling honesty. Saying yes takes Wallace into a new plane of existence: a place where money comes as easily as it goes, nodding a lot can lead to a long weekend overseas with new friends, and romance isn't as complicated as it seems. Yes eventually leads to the biggest question of all: "Do you, Danny Wallace, take this woman . . ." Yes Man is inspiring proof that a little willingness can take anyone to the most wonderful of places.
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 Scary, Inspiring and Downright Funny! August 26, 2008
If you don't laugh while reading this book, you probably don't have a pulse. It's that simple. 'Yes Man' is Danny Wallace's journey through the pitfalls of forcing himself -for a short while- to say yes to every single opportunity that presented itself. The book is a description of his personal experiences during this undertaking, and it could not be more scary, inspiring, and downright funny.
Think for two seconds about what your life would be like if you answered every single question asked of you with a Yes! and acted upon it. That will give you an idea of what the experience of this book is about. An absolutely brilliant must read!
 Why do you want to read sugar? August 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't believe this book got all the hype it's gotten so far. I can put this book and I did in fact put the book down many times. I didn't want to go on because I wasn't enjoying the experience.
Right now I keep picking the book up hoping that it will get better. It won't or rather, I hope it will because I want it to. I like the idea of the book but this guy makes me want to puke. It's too sugary. It's like eating three pounds of gummy bears. You think it feel so good but when it's sitting your stomach you know it's gotta come out somewhere, somehow, someway.
This guy is too nice and too all about himself. Many times in the story he makes a claim and doesn't live up to it. There are way too many parts of the story that don't belong, or rather I don't care about. There's no real character to him. Who can just say he won't go into work today because he's saying Yes to things? Doesn't that seem a little... well hypocritical? Shouldn't he continue to go to work and say YES to work? Oh he's a radio producer so he can get away with this? I wish I were a radio producer so I won't have to have to go to work. I'm not. I'm a real person with a real job that I can say yes to.
Is this book fiction or non-fiction? I don't care because either way it's terrible. It's over written if it's indeed real. And if it's fiction then the characters are terribly plain.
 Really Funny! August 11, 2008
I really enjoyed this book. It was extremely funny and I often found myself laughing out loud in the middle of airports waiting for delayed planes, or when we I read the book out loud to my friend we were both sneakering to the point where I would need a minute to compose myself before I was able to go on reading.
Danny Wallace is an excellent storyteller not only did I laugh but his experience made me want to actually say yes more even if I didn't win large sums of money or got a promotion.
funniest book I've ever read June 3, 2008
i've read some funny stuff in my day. i'd heard a lot about this book; a friend of mine wouldn't stop talking about how great it was and i was like, "yeah sure." it was a hundred times better than even i thought it would be. get this book. not only will you not be able to put it down, but you won't stop laughing the entire time.
Excellent motivator February 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book affected me in a strange way, but a positive way. It really makes you analyze your own life. How many opportunities do you pass up because it is just so easy to say "no"? After reading the book, I find myself being motivated to "say yes more", and I am capitalizing on a lot more opportunies.
It is a good, quick, entertaining read. I also got a kick out of the UK dialect. It is one of the few book I've read that I try to force my friends to read.
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