Burning Bridges to Light the Way

by David Thorne

Featuring ALL NEW, never before published material, Burning Bridges to Light the Way is the latest release by New York Times best-selling author David Thorne.

All new content Looks Good; Let's Go • Aboveground Pools • Paradise City • Office Fight • Gossip • Hugs Are Always Nice • Safety Squirrel, and many more.

"Fans of Thorne's unique brand of humor will be delighted.His funniest book in years." Huffington Post

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Essays, Comedy

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2019

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]

Best 'About the Author' ever. Not to be skipped.

I am always going to buy David Thorne's books. At least twice. Once for me, once for the HS seniors who "can't find anything good to read".

[Vincent Rey · Rating 5 out of 5]

David Thorne's writing is so effortlessly hilarious. This apparently is not his first book, as there are several others before this, but I will certainly catch up to reading them. Gave me lots of laugh-out-loud moments, and a surprisingly nice amount of heartfelt self-reflection.
Highly entertaining. A great way to pass the time and feel good vibes.

[Andrew E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great David Thorne book as usual

I've read a few books by David and this is up there with his best books. I enjoyed his hilarious tales about living in the states from an Australian perspective. A great casual read that definitely had quite a few belly laughs.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outro ótimo livro de David Thorne. Quando sai o próximo?

[E.S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike David Thorne's previous books, this new collection of essays contains very few emails. I was happy to find that this book did not contain a dead spider in it, like the other book I ordered. I remember yelping in legitimate fright. Anyway, this new collection shows a new side of David that I didn't know existed. A sympathetic, defensive, MAGA-disliking Australian-American. This makes it seem like for the majority of the time I've read his books, I've been like "haha, what a dick." I mean, yeah, his books are fucking hilarious but sometimes I stop and think "Wow, what a dickhead." In his new book, I really enjoyed his stories about his responses to JM's ridiculous memes, Daniel Day-Lewis' role preparations, the sketchy "gentleman's club" (take David's advice and Google the place, for real), and his co-worker Walter complaining about everything. During my breaks at work, I annoyed everyone by laughing every five minutes. Highly recommend reading if you like David's work. Also, found a few typos that I'm 100% sure were not intentional in the book. David, if you need an editor, let me know.

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Typical David Thorne. Stories that make you cringe and feel bad about laughing at but you can't help yourself.

[Stephen Findeisen` · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you like other books by David Thorne....

Note: I’m a lifelong customer of David. I read his first book almost a decade ago and have read every release since. So, bear in mind my review is written from that perspective. This book is more of the same from David, which is fine by me. At this point you should know whether you like this guy. His humor is distinct, his cynicism delightful. He has improved as a writer of non-email stories and I found myself enjoying his more story driven ideas just as much as the brutal email exchanges. From all indications I’ll be forking over $10 a year to David as long as he’s willing to write them. Good stuff.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of the humor you love about David is found in this new book. Got it in the mail on Wednesday and finished it within 24 hours on a flight. I will say that despite riding in first class I wasn’t seated next to David or Daniel Day-Lewis. I assumed that the coincidence of my flight and the story in the book meant it was destiny.

This only includes a few emails which worried me unnecessarily. The stories were perfect and hilarious! Loved it.

[Mirot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poignant and more emotional than his previous work, but still keeps that hilarious dry humor that makes it so much fun to read. Many stories call back to previous stories, making this feel like a connected work rather than the cobbled-together nature of some of his older book releases. Enjoyed it cover to cover, and legitimately laughed out loud at times. I wish I could share this with my family without feeling immoral.

[Victoria (: Book Nerdvana :)]

Not my type of humour it seems.
Mean and callous, almost cruel.
Somehow I found absolutely nothing funny in the story about a 12-year-old boy getting molested by an older man for 50$. (According to the author’s recounting, this happened to his friend Michael in the toilets of the tennis court - an older man s*cked teenage Michael off for 50$ and five cigarettes…)

[Tini Wan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always enjoy reading David Thorne. At first, I found his trolling email exchanges to be hilarious. This book has very little email exchanges but I still enjoy the way he writes with little quips and sarcastic remarks.

[Ronan Dunne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as funny as previous books

The book is good, there is only about two emails in the book which I found were the funniest piece of his writing. Still a interesting book, but glad I didn’t pay full price for it.

[Guy A · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a fan of David's previous work, I'm glad to have received this as a present. I'm not sure that it's as strong as some of the other books, but that's a high bar and this book is still funny. Where I think its strength lies is actually in how we get to know David slightly more personally, past what has previously seemed to edge into caricature. This (maybe paradoxically?) gives a coherency to his material.

[Heather]

Funny as usual, although I'm starting to wonder if liking this guy's humor is more a vestige of my more patriarchal-influenced self and he might be a bit more misogynist than I'd like? IDK. Everything is confusing rn.

[Ally Philp · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe

I get so excited whenever there is a new David Thorne book out - they never disappoint me. My husband always knows when a new one is out as all he can hear is me chortling incessantly

[Antares · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I absolutley love Thorne, I'm a little put off by the fact that in this book and in his last he seems to be really keen of shoving his leftist political leanings in the reader's face. I still love his wit and will continue to support his work.

[Timothy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very unorthodox, but super comical

David’s story’s stop you in time… you can help but wonder if the characters are real, Or a pigment of his crazy imagination! But I have checked, and they are real! Incredibly funny and imaginative storytelling.

[Em · Rating 5 out of 5]

I very rarely laugh out loud, unless one of my sworn enemies is in peril or grave embarrassment. It wasn't the case reading this, but I laughed out loud quite a lot.
My better half was intrigued at times (at the times when she pays attention) and I told her some of the best bits. She wasn't very impressed. Maybe it's something about my story-telling or maybe I'm seeing more than it is in this book. I'm not very confident in my story-telling skills, which doesn't necessarily exclude the other assumption. But still, I think there is. And liked it immensely.

[Jaime Confer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did not disappoint

I've followed David Thorne on Facebook for years. I eventually started to read his books. This one did not disappoint. I always have a good laugh at his stories.

[Peter Doyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jesus wept

I wanted to leave a proper review, one that would stand out. An example of my own shining wit but sadly I barely rate as mediocre.
The book was great. Really enjoyed it.

[MallyBoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Made me and my mum die laughing

Honestly one of my favourite authors/dickheads/trolls of all time! Eleven more words were required so I can send this review

[Marjan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best comedy book ever! I read it in one day and almost died laughing.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a fun adventure in a David Thorne book. Fat hairy necked vape guys, byob strip clubs and which Impractical Joker David Thorne would date if he were female. 17 to 25

[Shane · Rating 2 out of 5]

Without the emails...

...this is just a random collection of David's memories of being mean. Not as funny as his other books and I think I will leave him to it from here.

[Dougie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another cracking set of stories from David Thorne. I tend not to laugh when reading, but as with all his other books, I can't help but chortle away when reading this.

[Kirt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love David Thornes humour and enjoyed this book and change of from previous books

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book you can easily finish in a couple of sittings. I laughed at least once every 2-3 pages. That’s pretty good and much needed these days.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny, mildly entertaining, a little mean spirited, all things we've come to expect from Throne; but not the biting insightful humor of his earlier work.

[Sarah Thornton]

Long, rambling, but not irritating.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

the book is what you expected from David Throne; satire and dark jokes.. a long-form story is a good alternative than the previous story exchange style. a quick casual read for a laugh..