Just Because It Happened To You Doesn't Make It Interesting

by David Thorne

A book about sleeping, static electricity, and blind fish that live in caves.

Ben's new girlfriend isn’t much to look at it, but she makes up for it in personalities. She has fourteen. One is a surly mechanic named Jim. None of them use soap. Apparently they met on a Warhammer 40K server, but I have no idea what that is. Ben attempted to explain it once, but I wasn’t paying attention because he had a little moth in his beard.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Essays

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 10, 2024

About the author

David Thorne is an Australian humourist, satirist, Internet personality and New York Times best-selling author. His work has been featured on the BBC, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 for an email exchange in which he attempts to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The exchange spread virally via email and social networking sites, leading to a surge of visitors to his website 27b/6 (27bslash6). 27b/6 features a collection of humorous emails and articles from Thorne's life. These and additional essays appear in Thorne's book, The Internet is a Playground. Published by Penguin Group and released on 28 April 2011, the book debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Reviews

[jv poore · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wherein Mr. Thorne seems slightly angry, still funny.

[Darcy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 - This might be the first book of his that I didn't mark down as 5 stars. It was still a really good read, but some of the stories felt boring. I guess you could say, "just because it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting." lol

[Alex Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I once saw David Hasselhoff playing mini golf.

[Kimmy C · Rating 4 out of 5]

I buy his books every year, and it’s a superb time waster for the general busyness of the season, but with a lot on including a house move and injured husband, I seem to have lost my sense of humour a bit. Onwards to 2025’s offering.

[Fred Nanson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thorne’s books are perfect and I wish he would give a try to writing fiction (not that everything he writes is true and actually happened but you know what I mean).

[Emi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually laughed out loud several times

[Em · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you've read any of the other books, it's pretty much like them, but more recent. If you haven't, you have some serious catching up to do. I think this is book number 87 in the collection about the adventures of David Thorne, the beautiful princess from Australia that moved to the US in the pursuit of happiness, snow and cheaper cigarettes.
Also, some heavy gambling happened at some point, but that is for another book.
#87 is the rarest number on the roulette, so it's pretty special, I guess. Which is also explained in the book.

[Chris Harrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great selection of stories, David Thorne's output remains consistently amusing and an enjoyment to read.

Not as long as his previous outputs, though you wouldn't tell from the size of the book - he's upped the size of the font a bit to keep the illusion, cheeky git.

Should be knocking $450 off the cost of the book for that.

[Michel Friedhofer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I presume Thorne’s kind of humor will not please everyone’s taste, but that’s also probably true of every other variety of humor. I find the absurdity of it all quite entertaining — in fact, I can’t help but think that Thorne comes across as some sort of lopsided reincarnation of Douglas Adams. I wish I could be a fly on the wall in a conversation between those two…

[Harold Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this on a flight, people were looking at me strangely. Solid laughs. References people/coworkers from previous books so if this is your first book by David Thorne, you might not get some of the jokes.

[Kevin R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still funny

Thorne's latest continues to provide his unique sense of humor. To me, the email exchanges have been the best part. Fewer of those here, but one long hilarious exchange to finish out the book. Quick read.

[Ron · Rating 5 out of 5]

David Thorne never disappoints!

[Ms Sarah E Woodall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tears of Laughter

I genuinely cried laughing. A book seemingly about nothing but also about everything. David Thorne has leapt into my top ten favourite authors list.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10.

Some more fun interactions (he saved the best for last) from ol' Thorny. Not much else to say. Lynn's vibrations were the highlight.

[Megan Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love all of these books. They’re insane and also why am I laughing out loud so hard in public?

[Ian Mason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laugh out loud and thoroughly entertaining read. I heard about this in another book, I’m going to read the rest of his books. Loved it

[Susan Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this occasionally mildly amusing. Mostly, there was a lot of mean spirited humor which is not my thing. The only redeeming section was the chapter about the boat sale

[uncle chaps · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these silly little books

[Claire Q · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read these every year - this year I was feeling really down, and it helped cheer me up. Especially the office stories!