Danny Wallace has become familiar to UK TV viewers. Firstly, he presented a programme about starting your own cult, with predictably mixed results. More recently, he's been starring in a programme about taking a small piece of the world and turning it into your own personal country, complete with bank, passports and ruling government. In between the two, he wrote this book.

It's an incredibly simple premise. Danny Wallace has no social life. He's not going out much, in fact he's making efforts to persuade his friends not to invite him. He's feeling a bit depressed generally. One day, whilst taking a random bus journey, he falls into conversation with a man. This man tells him "Say Yes more." It's fair to say, in the context of the book, this hits Mr Wallace in much the same way that God hit Moses with the Ten Commandments. Danny Wallace takes this message to heart - for the next few months, he shall become The Yes Man, saying Yes to everything life throws at him.

In short, the book tells the story of what happened next. Danny ropes in a close friend, Ian, to keep an eye on him and make sure he does indeed say Yes. He also has to contend with someone else who has found out his secret and seems determined to wreck it. In the ensuing months he journeys to various parts of Europe, pokes a Buddhist monk on television and actually and genuinely changes someone's life.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's witty, it's pleasant and it's fun. Perhaps it doesn't make any great statement about life, or love, or the world. But it does manage to make me smile and it reinforces a belief that I had been trying out for myself - if you say Yes with the knowledge that anything could happen, but believe that no matter what happens you can deal with it - if you say Yes you can have a lot of fun.

I saw Danny Wallace on TV recently, presenting a feature as part of He's Having A Baby. This show has not been a sucess. I wonder if he got involved because he said Yes when he wanted to say no?