Book #15: Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... by Josh Widdicombe
Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life by Josh Widdicombe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Josh Widdicombe's book isn't a typical autobiography, so no stories of a trouble home life here. Instead, he recounts several things that he watched on television, mostly during the 1990s.
It's a strange premises, but it works, most because of Josh's characteristic, observational humour. I found that some chapters were better than others (particularly in that, if he mentioned something that passed me by for whatever reason, I had slightly less interest).
Overall, though, I really enjoyed it; I noticed that not every chapter was entirely about the TV show that it purported to be about, just the effects that the show had on him; for example one chapter segued into a story about a misadventure with drugs at Glastonbury.
It feels like it might not be a book for everyone, and this book is primarily about TV shows that aired in Britain, but it does paint a really good portrait of what most of us were watching throughout a whole decade.
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