Random Acts Of Kindness: 365 Ways to Make the World a Nicer Place

by Danny Wallace and Xio Axelrod

In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a 'Random Act of Kindness' every Friday. As a result, his thousands of followers (dubbed the Karma Army),... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091901758
• ISBN13: 9780091901752
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best book of my life

very Short cute examples. I practice taking small actions every day from this book and feel so happy every day.

If You've Randomly Come Across a Danny Wallace Book, Your Day Just Got a lot Brighter!

Random Acts of Kindness is a nice little spin off of Danny Wallace's massively successful cult (literally and in the definition of cult classic) masterpiece Join Me!. That story was how Danny started his own cult by accident with a simple experiment of placing an advertisement in a newspaper asking for people to join him by sending a photo and seeing what happened). Ultimately he had to make a decision, what would he as cult leader get his followers to do? Evil things? Good things? He decided on good and his followers performed numerous acts of kindness to complete strangers. This little side book is 365 examples of those acts. You should read Join Me first to fully appreciate this but if you just want to motivate others to do something nice, get a better outlook on life or have friends who don't want to read a big non fiction novel then this little gem will suffice on it's own. Some examples of the random acts of kindness inside are washing your neighbour's cars, if someone cuts you off in traffic, instead of giving them the finger, smile and wave at them like a lunatic. Write to an old teacher and say thanks, give blood, print shirts with someone's face on it as well as banners and organise a night in their honour when they turn up at the pub, compliment a lesbian couple on their haircuts and listen to a story without once interrupting. Random Acts of Kindness doesn't really show how brilliant a writer and storyteller Danny Wallace is though. Check out Join Me and his masterpieces such as where he along with his flatmate and fellow leading writer in the weird true reality life genre Dave Gorman set out to find and meet 54 other people with the exact same name as Dave Gorman (Are You Dave Gorman?). Yes Man where Danny takes a vow to say yes to any request for the rest of the year no matter what is asked of him. Plus his contribution to Quick Reads (short stories sold at train stations and other places to encourage people to read books rather than just magazines, graphic novels, newspapers and the like) which was called Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe where Danny travels to and explores the Idaho town of Wallace, which claims to be the centre of the universe. Danny also has a new book out called Friends Like These which although not up to the masterpiece standard of his previous work is still a very good and enjoyable read as well.

great fun!

this was a fun book and does review the idea that we can all have more fun and delight in life by doing things that are a little oddball. Even read it twice with about a year between to review some fun ideas