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The Fridge-hiker's Guide to Life: How to Stay Cool When You're Feeling the Heat | 
| Author: Tony Hawks
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 10759
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0091924189
EAN: 9780091924188
ASIN: 0091924189
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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 Disappointing October 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to what I perceived would be a follow up to "Round Ireland with a fridge". Unfortunately, "The fridge-hiker's guide to life" is a major disappointment.
I have thoroughly enjoyed "Round Ireland with a fridge" and to a slightly lesser degree "Playing the Moldovans...", "A piano in the Pyrenees" and "one hit wonderland".
As stated by "an avid reader" (Customer reviewer) this book is just repeating the vast majority of "Round Ireland with a fridge" with just a few additional sentences. As such reading is laboured because you already are aware of future events.
If you have not had the pleasure of reading "Round Ireland with a fridge" then this would probably be a good read, however I would not recommend it to a fan of the previous and original book.
an unwelcome return October 10, 2008
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
Bank balance a bit low Mr Hawks? Last book not as successful as you hoped? Running out of crazy, wacky ideas to prove what a crazy, wacky guy you are?
Rehash a 10 year old book then, add a few 'anecdotes' and flesh out said 10 year old book with stuff that wasnt deemed good enough for it when first published. Nice work if you can get it.
Hawks hasnt got any funnier since 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' and still comes accross as a smug, self obsessed and self indulgent moron.
AVOID. If you buy it he'll just write another one, and, I for one, dont want this fella to be given any more opportunity to be heard. Especially not if he can't come up with any ideas more original than this.
 He has done it again! October 5, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Tony Hawks has once again reeled us in with his humour and charming wit. His recent book "The Fridge-Hiker's Guide to Life: How to stay cool when you're feeling the heat" is an inspirational novel with a genuinely interesting outlook on life.
Tony talks of the lessons he learned from his first book when he travelled round Ireland with a small refrigerator (Round Ireland with a Fridge) and uses examples to support and explain his ideas. As a result the readers get to see a slightly different side to Tony - more vulnerable, more human.
As with his other books, it is a very funny read but what makes this one slightly different from his others is that it has some really good advice about how we can makes things easier for ourselves in a world where everything always seems so difficult.
I would recommend this book even if you haven't read his first book as he explains the important parts again. And if you have already read the original one but not for a long time, it is definitely worth reading even if just to re-live his mad journey!
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