A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line

Sometimes you hear people say Oh I had a nightmare journey on the tube and you understand that their commute home on the London Underground was unpleasant than usual We don t take the word nightmare to mean that in the middle of a packed carriage they literally realised that they were wearing their pyjamas and then felt their teeth crumbling as their childhood maths teacher stood before them pointing and laughing, only it wasn t exactly the Tube because it was also the kitchen A Tube train is stuck underground because the economy above has collapsed How has this happened and how will the passengers get out Will they have to break the rules of Underground etiquette and actually speak to each other In John O Farrell s caustically funny short story, nothing is certain.The city is filled with stories In twelve books, twelve writers tell their tales of London life, each inspired by a different Underground line Some are personal, some are polemical every one is unique.John O Farrell, author of The Man Who Forgot His Wife, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and Things Can Only Get Better, turns his comedic genius to the problem of capitalism, encapsulated in a Tube train full of passengers stuck underground part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as TfL celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. Download A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line – kino-fada.fr A thoroughly enjoyable little read set on a Jubilee line stuck in a tunnel I m sure many people have experienced similar situations Hilarious tube announcements informing customers of the situation, the typical characters of the tube including frustrated Northerners and Boris voters, and a well known but well hated polit...Dry, dry, dry Trying too hard to be funnier, but drier than a fortnight old cake Has nothing we don t already know but then again it could ve beenfun if the book were done in a fun way The guest stars were not funny at all neither wa...Amusing political parable from the golden age before brexit.Hilarious and brilliant, everyone should read this.This is one of 12 books written in celebration of 150 years of London Underground one book for each tube line They re beautiful volumes, but I couldn t afford to buy all 12, so after some slightly painful deliberation I settled for this and the one dedicated to the Central Line.And O Farrell s Jubilee Line offering is a dream its title perhaps seems rather dry, but what lies inside is anything but However, I don t want to give away anythan the cover already does, as the realisation o This is one of 12 books written in celebration of 150 years of London Underground one book for each tube line They re beautiful volumes, but I couldn t afford to buy all 12, so after some slightly painful deliberation I settled for this and the one dedicated to the Central Line.And O Farrell s Jubilee Line offering is a dream its title perhaps seems rather dry, but what lies inside is anything but However, I don t want to give away anythan the cover already does, as the realisation of what the plot entails is the book s chief source of delight Suffice it to quote O Farrell s own description of his idea for the book Das Kapital meets the Poseidon Adventure somewhere in Zone 2.The second greatest source of delight lies in how the plot un...I found out about this book through one of Leena Norms videos, and I m glad I did Set in a dream where our protagonist is stuck on the Jubilee Line in a train that has come to a halt due to the collapse of Western civilisation What a start.This dream serves as a platform get it on which discussions about the history capitalism in Britain, captured symbolically by the stops on the Jubilee Line It s a discussion that also brings in concepts of political economy, and democracy among others I found out about this book through one of Leena Norms videos, and I m glad I did Set in a dream where our protagonist is stuck on the Jubilee Line in a train that has come to a...Very interesting little book, read it in one sitting Puts forward some interesting arguements about Capitalism, leftist and rightists, and the private vs the public sector Read it for Interesting facts about the Jubilee ...With its 150 plus years of history and its central place in the daily lives of millions of people, the London Underground exerts a strange fascination Sometimes, this fascination tips over into downright geekiness This is a book that both mocks and celebrates that geekiness, but takes it a stage further by turning a breakdown on the Jubilee Line into a comic metaphor for a crisis in capitalism presumably inspired by the financial crisis of 2007...Yeah it was funny, yeah I laughed, yeah I learnt a bit of trivia, and yeah it didn t overstay its welcome, but it certainly felt like an extended newspaper column that had John O Farrell largely trying to show off his ability to internally argue ideological structures.That was a great little book I found it funny, super British, ironic and weird The plot is fairly simple and the dichotomy between left and right not particularly original, but the way it was told was funny and it was pleasantly written I enjoyed it.

• English
• 27 July 2017
John O'Farrell
• Paperback
• 108 pages
• 1846146348
• John O'Farrell
• A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line