Probably Ayoade’s most accomplished book in his bibliography of doing “books like this”. It feels more lived in, more detailed. There are some bitingly funny lines, some well-drawn characters, but the highlights for me remain the “excerpts” of Hughes’ screenplays and scripts, all excellently observed parodies of a certain type of British film or play. It gets a little muddled in the final stretch, but on the whole a satisfying read.