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Pains on Trains: A Commuter's Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions

Pains on Trains: A Commuter's Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions


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Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out of commuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasoned traveller as the blow-up pillow and water sterilising tablets. In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set their sights on the scourge of the modern office worker - other office workers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with their annoying habits and depressing clothes. Pains on Trains is dedicated to the rush-hour veteran and consists of a 'pain-spotting' guide to the very worst people you meet on your daily commute. Each painful character is illustrated in their usual context and supported by a short narrative.

Table of Contents:
Preface 6 Acknowledgements 8 Trial by Commuting 10 The Beggar 16 The Belligerent 20 The Born in a Stable 24 The Broadsheet 28 The City Boy 32 The Clique 36 The Creative 40 The Deadbeat 44 The Death Breath 48 The Double Seater 52 The Drunk 56 The Engager 60 The Enquirer 64 The Family 68 The Fast Fooder 72 The Flamboyant Groin 76 The Gadget 80 The Gaggle 84 The Group 88 The Hero 92 The High-flier 96 The Late Starter 100 The Lovers 104 The Make Up Artist 108 The Mammoth 112 The Mobile Phoner 116 The New Worker 120 The Night Clubbers 124 The Nose Picker 128 The Nutter 132 The Over Your Shoulder 136 The Pervert 140 The Phantom Farter 144 The Reservist 148 The Ritualist 152 The Sardine Packer 156 The Sleeper 160 The Social Climber 164 The Spinster 168 The Starer 172 The Stinker 176 The Stretcher 180 The Territorialist 184 The Texter 188 The Toff 192 The Train Timer 196 The Traveller 200 The Vomiter 204 The Wheeled Caser 108 The Youth 212 Afterword 216

About the Author :
Andrew Holmes is a writer, serial commuter, gadfly and collector of stories and observations about the people around him. He spends far too much time on trains for his own good and is seeking professional help to overcome the obsessive-compulsive disorders that have resulted. He likes to spend as much time as possible with his family - assuming he ever gets home of course. Matt Reeves lives and works somewhat beyond the M25. Rumours that he is the model for 'The Creative' as featured in this book are grossly over-exaggerated. Working on this project has given Matt a more detailed understanding of the UK rail system and its commuters than he would have ideally liked. All proceeds derived by Matt from this book will be put towards his helicopter fund.

Review :
"…start ‘pain spotting’ and put the fun back in to commuting…" (Publishing News, 12 September 2003) "…A new book Pains on Trains offers advice on taking it all [irritating commuters] in your stride..."(Daily Mirror, 24 October 2003) "…hugely funny…" (Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003) "…Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantly Observed look at the different types of people…" (Edinburgh Evening News, 1 November 2003) "…hugely funny…" (Cambridge Evening News, 8 November 2003) "…hysterically accurate…" (Southern Daily Echo, 8 November 2003) "…brilliantly observed…" (East Anglian Daily Times, November 2003) "…hysterically accurate…with wonderful descriptions and illustrations…" (Irish News (Belfast), 1 November 2003) "....I like to think of myself as fairly curmudgeonly, though I am mild-mannered compared to Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves who have produced a book called Pains on Trains...this consists of 50 different types of people who annoy the authors on trains..." (The Guardian, April 2006)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781841125640
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Capstone Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 174 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Commuter's Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions
  • Width: 124 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1841125644
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 198 gr


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