Alan Partridge: Nomad

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Of course, it’s all coming from his point-of-view so all of these insights are hilarious rather than meaningful.

With one hand braced against the wall, I’m now grabbing and clawing the angry aperture, slashing and scraping………” …. I needed something silly and light-hearted to try and counter all the black-pills I've been swallowing back with my recent reading choices. We learn some new things about the world of Alan Partridge - including one major fact that many people will be sad to hear - but overall this is a daytrip inside Alan's mind and it's fantastic for it. The audio recording is excellent, which is what you can expect from Sennheiser recording equipment and the expert use by the much loved UK radio and TV (less so after the shooting) presenter. I reckon the web series from last year, Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle, is one of the best things he's done.Ok, it's not deathless literature, but I can't imagine that anyone who has enjoyed Partridge in his other media incarnations wouldn't get a big kick out of this. We hear of the emotional and physical struggles of Alan attempting to walk in the footsteps of his father while simultaneously struggling to promote his walk to TV producers. Alan is a modern day Renaissance man looking to connect with his dear departed somewhat grouchy fatbacked dad. Regardless, I did get some laughs from this, albeit not as good as his first autobiography, and it’s nice to have for free on Spotify. The genius of this book, and “I, Partridge” before it, is how it manages to portray events through Alan’s perspective while also making it obvious how it would have played out if you’d been watching it from outside.

He's still his insufferable self, with just enough pathos, failure and little-boy bewilderment to make us still want to root for him.It should be keenly noted by all readers that the top five global routes as ranked according to passenger-kilometres are all out of LHR. Through witty vignettes, heavy essays and nod-inducing pieces of wisdom, Alan shines a light on the nooks of the nation and the crannies of himself, making this a biography that biographs the biographer while also biographing bits of Britain. They hit you with cumulative effect, so that after a few paragraphs you might easily find yourself reduced to tears by a single well-chosen adverb.

Although Alan makes some good points concerning Gatwick’s conveniences, I must confess that my heart will always side with Heathrow, even if the quality of its passenger experience is very terminal-dependent (T5>T2>>T4>T3). Demented by his envy of well-paid TV travellers Julia Bradbury, Clare Balding and Michael Portillo, and lust for Bradbury, Alan cobbles together this idea in the hope of securing a series on terrestrial TV.While we do get some more insight into other characters, the main "plot" is a bit simple and moves at a slow pace. The character's voice is 100% accurate, and I'm happy to report that a book made me laugh out loud - often - for the first time in many years. The above table explains why Heathrow is always so chockablock full of A380’s and 777’s and A350’s and other such heavy-duty-no-messing-about big boys (much more ground shakingly interesting for plane spotting). Everything he says has come through a filter in his brain, a filter which consistently obscures the empty chasms of his ego and his omnipresent insecurity from no one but himself. Not much more I can say than 'Pure Genius' If you know Alan Partridge, watched his TV programes, read his books or seen any of his DVD's, you will eat this up very quickly.