"Why Me? The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant" sees Bob Godzilla Servant, "a former cheeseburger magnate and semi-retired window cleaner," and a 64-year-old resident of the Dundee suburb Broughty Ferry, conversing with spam emailers turning their requests for money, or their looking for a husband, into surreal and funny conversations.
For example there is a conversation about buying 50,000 barrels for $50,000 and how this could put Dundee on the map with Bob supporting his conversation with newspaper cuttings from the Dundee Chronicle, e.g. "Dundee celebrated today after a local businessman pledged to create an oil industry to rival neighbouring Aberdeen..." The conversation also sees Bob anger the spammer by stealing his job and becoming "Bob Servant, Director, National Oil and Investment, Royal Plaza, Togo." Another conversation sees him sending a phone number one digit at a time because of security reasons.
But as the book goes along the formula felt like it was tiring, although to be fair you are partly reliant on the spammer to make a good conversation and most of them had a one track mind with their emails constantly asking for personal data. But also I felt the jokes were tiring too, for example with multiple jokes along the same lines about Sir Trevor McDonald and Scottish celebrities' houses.
I can't compare this to the original book (Delete This at Your Peril) as I haven't read that, but this as a stand-alone is worth getting.
Amazon UK link: Why Me? The Very Import Emails of Bob Servant
Publication date: 10 November 2011
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