Middle Class Problems: Problems but not real actual problems, just middle class ones

by Benjamin Lee

A hilarious collection of the most agonizing real-life inconveniences faced by the iPhone-losing, polenta-burning, Eurostar-missing middle classes, illustrated by Matt Blease‘My pug has hiccups’ ‘I've given myself a croissant headache’‘I just dropped batteries in my quinoa’‘Think I’ve forgotten how to ski’Can't find your melon baller? Wrestling with wrapping paper? Struggling to figure out how to properly pronounce quinoa?? Get your daily trials into perspective with this hilarious collection of the top #MiddleClassProblems from around the globe. Since 2010, Benjamin Lee has run the hugely popular @MiddleClassProb account, and in this book he has selected the all-time highlights.

Genres: Humor

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2014

Reviews

[Debs · Rating 2 out of 5]

A selection of tweets curated from the twitter account of the same name. Gifted to me by a friend. As I will never attain middle-class status, these made me melancholy instead of amused.

[Pete Hardy · Rating 1 out of 5]

At £9.99 this is the most cynical and lazy book I have ever encountered. Probably took about ten minutes to put together and five minutes to read. Do not buy, do not even borrow. It is depressing rather than funny and it only left me feeling even more distraught that some people have too much money yet shit for brains. It makes one despair at the failure of the concept of meritocracy and made me want to start a workers revolution. If laughing about how to pronounce 'quinoa' is your thing, do not buy this book: kill yourself and do us all a favour.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing really original about taking a bunch of other people's tweets and publishing them, still I love the sarcastic tone. We know that people on the other side of the world are starving, yet we complain through various social media that our waiter served both coffee and ice cream at the same time, that we got too much feta in our greek salads or ordering the wrong pizza size. This book lets us relate, and laugh at each other's misfortunes.
Definetly worth picking up!

[Christopher M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me about 15 minutes to read, but was laugh out loud funny and will be revisited as a "bathroom book."

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny and well observed "problems". I read this book in about an hour and what a pleasant hour it was.

[Ben Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of middle class tweets, amusing but short. A good table book

[aisha · Rating 1 out of 5]

got this as a gift, ive lost a friend

none of the jokes were funny thats it. Max i hate u

-aisha

[Lisa Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very amusing

[Maurice · Rating 2 out of 5]

rather than funny (which in few cases it was), the way some people make clear they've got nothing meaningful to share is pathetic. It's also a 100% Anglo-Saxon perspective, which is even more pathetic. I liked the idea butvso much more could have been done with that title.

[Chris Wilson]

Such a covertly hostile offering to the world you have made Benjamin Lee. Genuine humour could have saved your book from being an absolute and utter waste of precious time and attention, but this is not even remotely funny.