Ayoade’s directorial debut, ‘ Submarine, containing no punctuation in its title whatsoever, is a financial calamity’. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I started reading this book around 10pm one night, thinking to myself I'd just get in 30 mins or so before bed. First, Ayoade is incredibly self-deprecating, even observing that "Ayoade is so terrified of criticism that he prefers to criticize himself (often mid-sentence, and in parentheses) before the reader has a chance to demur. Request Rejected This page is unavailable due to either geographic restrictions or other restrictions in place at this time.And these hundreds of footnotes (that's not an exaggeration) made me go forth and back all the time. Clearly no one can completely know me, not even me, so you get it wrong, you're afraid to fully engage. It’s not that Ayoade on Ayoade isn’t a fun book but it is something that could have worked better in another medium. He was also the host of the spin-off series Travel Man, where he spent 48 hours in a different location each episode with a celebrity guest. PS I have also very much enjoyed his promotional interviews with various journalist during which he has managed to resist all laws of modern publicity and has left his interviewers at loss for what to make out of their encounter with him.

The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish.

In 2010, Ayoade made his debut directorial feature, Submarine, a coming-of-age comedy-drama he adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel of the same name. It has to be treated much like 'I, Partridge', if you've read it, if you haven't then that suggestion will be of no value to you. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Come to think of it, it is actually astounding that this is not the most commonly used phrase in everyday speech. His ability to be so silly and yet so serious- often simultaneously- continues to leave me both baffled and delighted.