'Stop Looking at Your Phone' by Son of Alan is a humorous look at what we miss (or don't miss) when we are buried in our screens.

Told in the same safety infographics as airline seatback instructions, categories like eating and conversing, but there are also pointed ones like being burglarized in your own home because you are too precoccupied. There are other warnings like walking in traffic and making sure your child isn't crawling on the train tracks.

It's a pretty fast read, but in our preoccupied society, it might be the kind of gentle reminder that a friend or family member needs. I loved the design style and the art and the not so subtle jabs.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Stop Looking at Your Phone are comics which put a person into a variety of situations where they may be walking along a pavement or admiring a view whilst on vacation, yet with them looking at their phone they miss out on a great deal and place themselves in danger. I think this book has a lack of colour. I’m also not sure if the comics work as a book, it’s very much a coffee table type of book. I enjoyed the comics I read.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a Kindle copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really wanted to read this - it sounded fantastic but I couldn’t get the book to open on my kindle app despite contacting support

Everyone knows smart phones have impacted the way we live and go about our days. Son of Alan has a message for you: Stop Looking at Your Phone. With simple graphics and illustrations, he communicates simple steps you can take to engage with people and the world around you. Actually, it's one simple step: put the phone away (or maybe just trash it).



He illustrates the many perils to our bodies, social lives, relationships, and health that our phones may cause. Missing out on meeting new people or enjoying our families, falling down stairs or into a manhole, or falling over a waterfall during a botched selfie are bad enough. When we're glued to our phones, we might also miss the best part of a concert, or get caught up in filming or posting about something without truly enjoying it.



Funny and sarcastic while giving good reminders to put the phone away, Stop Looking at Your Phone is sure to hit a nerve and make you sheepishly put your phone in your pocket. That's a good thing.





Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!

Stop Looking at Your Phone by Son of Alan wasn't quite what I was expecting. It's literally panels of correct and incorrect mobile device etiquette (as envisioned by the author). I thought there would be more humour involved, but it fell flat for me. Everything felt too cut and dried, and the art seemed fuzzy, lacking sharp edges. Part of that nay have been the egalley formatting though.

I kinda felt judged at times. Yes, I agree people can get too involved with their phones/ devices, but this made it feel we should never use them. I disagree. My entire current nuclear family are introverts to some degree or another. We can sit in comfortable silence, reading, working, playing games. We do set limits. Meals are for conversing, for one. Overall, this just wasn't my cuppa, and falls under the rarely used 'DNF' category for me.

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Stop Looking at Your Phone by Son of Alan is a satirical book on our phone addiction. It is a graphical adult book with very few words. It has several scenarios where we pick up our phones because we are bored. The book provides a remedy for such situations. A few examples are, enjoy time spent with your child by making eye contact, not just by taking pictures. Enjoy food by keeping your phone aside.⁣

This book was the shortest read and I completed in 20 minutes, with a few laughs. A book worth having in your library in today’s age where we are slaves to phones.⁣

Thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the ARC⁣.

Get this book for yourself or for others in your life who cannot put down their cell phones for any reason! Humorous truths are in this book. Very entertaining!

The book to give to phone-addicted friends and family. Filled with ways to redeem ordinary activities the phone-addicted have lost touch with. Instead of photographing your baby or friends, interact with them. Put your phone down. Instead of looking at your phone at business meetings or on dates, interact with the person or people you're with. The illustrations are simple but the points come across clearly.

This book was cute. It’s literally just a bunch of pictures trying to show what happens if you focus on your phone too much. It was a nice simplistic book for me to look at while I was exercising but there isn’t much too it.

I think I completely misunderstood the premises of this book. It is made up solely of illustration. Illustration A - is how to not use your phone in a given situation, Illustration B - how to properly use your phone for the same situation. That's the whole book. There's maybe 50 words of the text through the whole thing and the illustrations remind me of what you'd see on caution signs or in an instruction manual. Overall, it wasn't what I was expecting, but I'm sure some people will enjoy this.

Description
In an age when we'd rather Instagram our food than eat it, this cheeky, illustrated instruction manual humorously demonstrates how to remove our eyes from our phones and reconnect with the real world.

In his wonderfully deadpan instruction manual for our increasingly device-focused lives, illustrator Son of Alan taps into the strange truth of our obsession with the tiny screen. Revealing how ludicrous we've all become, and what wonders lie install for us mere inches from our faces, this book will make you want to reclaim your life, your friends, and your family from the tyranny of the backlit screen. Without nagging or preaching, this book uses hilarious but simple illustrations to highlight our universal (and ridiculous) dependence on the cell phone. In Stop Looking at Your Phone, device-driven readers will receive a much-needed reminder of the possibilities life offers beyond the digitally enhanced screen.
Funny, sarcastic and true on point. It had to be said!! Enjoyed it.

Thanks to Netgalley/Author/Publisher for ARC of the book.

This is a hilarious book about how we are addicted to our phone. With our need to be constantly connected to the world we do miss all the things just next to us. The book illustrates this in a funny way.

The format is pdf format.

Well, this was a funny little read!

I think there are too many people in the world who need this book. Let's just face the facts; there are deaths because of selfies. Why is that a thing? Anywhooo...this was witty, sarcastic, sometimes overly obvious (which made it funny), and overall a good read.

I didn't have a lot of expectations going into reading <i>Stop Looking at Your Phone</i> by Son of Alan, but I definitely didn't imagine it would look as it does. I generally feel as though I'm being rather generous in giving this book three stars as a rating instead of two, however that is primarily due to the fact that the book did make me laugh a couple of times and so I think it's fair to say that the humor is there to an extent. Unfortunately, the message is not as poignant as it might have been nor are the comics always completely sensible. There's an implication that looking at one's phone causes more problems than it actually does at times in order to get the humor across and I don't think it always works the way the author intended.

The thing about this book that gets me is the fact that I would never buy it. It's the sort of book that I would, if I noticed it at a bookstore, pick up and thumb through--possibly giggling a few things--and eventually return to the shelf because it served its purpose completely in that moment. It's the kind of book that I'd wonder what someone was thinking for buying it. I don't find it rereadable. Though, perhaps it would be fitting for a teenager who can't put their phones down for more than five seconds. Still, I don't see a lot of use coming out of it.

<i>Stop Looking at Your Phone </i>is a funny book that's worth flipping through while browsing at the store, but not really for buying. I can see parents buying it as a sort of joke message for their teenage kids, but nothing much more than that. It doesn't really bring a whole lot to the discussion of the dangers of looking at ones phone, but just tries to make it a bit humorous, if albeit a little unrealistic.

<i>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

I’m not sure what age range this book is supposed to be aimed at and I thought this book was supposed to be a "humorous" book but not once did I laugh, it didn’t even make me smile. I found myself looking at the drawings and thinking, REALLY...?🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s very plain and dull I Think the author could of made it a lot more interesting by having many pictures for each topic rather than just one and perhaps with more funnier characters instead of boring looking plan people.
I can see the idea behind this book but It all looked like it was rushed and messy.

Stop Looking at Your Phone always has two parts, first, it shows the scenario the wrong way featuring the phone and then the second one shows that you are supposed to put your phone away. Should this be humorous? I'm not certain, I did not laugh nor smiled even once while "Reading" this.

And it's funny that once (or was it twice?) the author basically said: "put the phone away and watch the tv." And that's better how?

The drawings were not good at all and reminded me of those evacuation directions you have on a plane but even those are better cause those are colourful!

The author tried very hard and failed miserably.

And I cannot not mention the part about the weather. A) shows that it's snowing and the guy is dressed for beach cause his phone is telling him that it's hot outside. B) The correct way is to look out of the window and see and dress according to what you see. Well, right now it's sunny outside and it looks like a fabulous spring day, so, maybe a dress? But guess what? It's actually freezing outside!

Fail.

This is a one trick pony who doesn't do the trick it knows all that well, but does it for hours on end.

This is a kindergarteners playing the recorder, with a bunch of other kindergarteners, none of whom have a beat a pattern or the right key.

This is a heavy handed attempt at humor that falls flat again and again and again.

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<img src="https://g2comm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-5.21.13-PM.png" alt="Put down your phone" width="674" height="952" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4992" />

The problem with this humor book is that it states its premise, which is that people should put down their phones and enjoy the life in front of them. Then states it again. And again, for however many pages this book contains. Yes, we get it already.

And the way it states it is to diagrams such as you would see in a flight evacuation pamphlet.

I suppose that is what makes it funny?

I'm not sure who this book is aimed at. Perhaps there is someone out there that would love it. That someone is not me.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

I don't really get the point of this book. I mean, of course I understand the meaning, what's more I agree with it and support it: yes, we should pay way less attention to our phones and way more to our surroundings! But this book was supposed to be funny, and even a 'helpful guide' - and none of it was it, really.
It started out good, I liked the introduction and at first I did believe it was going to be funny, but it turned out a bit boring and very repetitive. I get the joke, but I missed some more verbal entertainment along with the drawings. I actually kind of imagined a stand-up comedy style performance of someone witty and fun, with these pictures projected somewhere in the background, switching at the right times. That way, this would be awesome. The way this book is composed (very similar pictures, no text) it just wasn't.

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I thought this was hilarious! The irony of me reading it on my phone was not lost on me. It was simple, easy to follow photos. Perhaps over-simplified for some people, but the message was clear. Spend less time on your phone! Spend time in real life! I laughed a few times, recalled experiences on both sides of the argument. I really enjoyed this quick book.