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* Title: You'll Like It When You Get There: A Life Lived Reluctantly
* Author(s) name(s): James, Rhys
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9781035420414
* Publisher: Wildfire
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: August
* Publication Date Day: 14
* Page count: 256
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Hardcover
* Description: A refreshingly honest look at modern life, and how to get out of living it.

Rhys has lived his entire life with a backdrop of dread. As a child, the sentence he feared most was 'come downstairs and say hello.' Aged five, he feigned injury to avoid dancing at a wedding, and 25 years later, he celebrated when the venue set on fire moments before what would've been the biggest gig of his life.

You'll Like It When You Get There is a guide to life from someone who doesn't want to do anything, and an exploration of why you possibly shouldn't either. Join Rhys as he avoids not just social engagements but big life milestones too, like getting married and having children. A deep dive into regret, humiliation, failure and pretending to be French for personal gain. From the Wild West of early internet chatrooms to the sticky circus of the Kavos strip, from redesigning therapy after completing it in just four sessions, to having a full existential breakdown when a Buddhist monk asks him for five stars on TripAdvisor.

* Link to book page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035420414/

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