The Personals The Human stories behind the small ads by Brian
I have always been fascinated by ads and sometimes I also called or sent ads to various magazines. It's normal and the author, as we will see, at the beginning will introduce us the various changes in the ads's publication thanks to the advent of the net and new online realities in grade of making the difference.
Personally I remember I loved to reading the ads of Porta Portese a magazine published in Rome where you find this world and the other.
O'Connell, an irish reporter will transport the reader in a pretty diversified world: the ones of ads, requests, is a colorful world. Some weird example? An armoured car sold at a cheap price, eavesdropping bug for hidden voice recording; there is also who decided of selling her wedding dress; a pretty complicated story as you will read and fascinating as well.
A man differently asked for a dog, because without his old dog he couldn't walk anymore with pleasure.
Someone else wanted to sell graves because accidentally bought 6 graves! not just two; Mary will tell to the reporter her history as a homeless for all her existence.
They're just few examples of what you will find in this book. Divided in several sections, you can read all the book or you can jump here and there. It's all up to you, but I can tell you that all these stories are amazing.
What in fact O'Connell did everytime after that ads captured his attention was to calling the "adsers" interviewing them. Magically that ads as you will read became real, important, giving shape to a pretty diversified humanity; ads sometimes are crucials, for the existence of people in search of relief, happiness, new re-start, or for dreamers still following the past thanks to the present.
Ads are histories; human histories and they're never aseptic tools. They give out the best or the worst of the human being but they won't never leave us indifferent.
Beautiful book!
Anna Maria Polidori
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