Straight Outta Crawley

I enjoyed this book. I had no clue Romesh wrote a book until like a week or two ago when I watched him on Taskmaster, then in an interview where he was talking about this book, back when it was released. I think he's funny so I thought I'd give the book a try.

For some reason I was surprised to see how down to earth Romesh Ranganathan is. To be fair I had no other opinion on him apart from funny guy, so I don't really know why that came as a surprise, but there it is.

The book was not as funny as I was expecting it to be, but that's fine. I enjoyed reading about Romesh's journey, what he went through to get to where he is now. And Leesa sounds lovely, it's obvious how much Romesh loves her and their kids.

I don't know how much I should take this book seriously, so I'm not going to comment on the stuff I didn't enjoy; I will just say that I actually managed to stay more into it for the first two thirds of the book and I thought the ending was rather abrupt—not totally unusual since, well, the memoir is a work in progress I'd say—but I did like the pictures. Actually, no, the pictures were a nice touch, but what I actually liked was the little description on each of them.

I'd describe the book as a pretty decent read, I got used to Romesh's way of going on a tangent (the warning helped), and it is definitely a must for any of Romesh Ranganathan's fans.