Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life
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 | Product Details: Hardcover 288 pages Release Date: 2006 Publisher: Time Warner Books ISBN: 0316729531 Rating:   Sales Rank: 8358 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: About ten years too late... (04 December 2008)I opened this book expecting a well-written, sharp and witty piece of satire. Instead, the book reads like one of those 'list' shows which used to be shown (and are still repeated, ad nauseum) on Channel 4 in the mid-90s, an obvious checklist of gripes which have pretty much all been done to death. And better. And the over-use of expletives is, frankly, tiring. Perhaps the authors might have been advised to stick to the old adage, 'Less is more' - too late, unfortunately: they've published more of them. Some things are, indeed a bit poor (05 August 2008)...but not all of them. You know those 'and another thing' conversations down the pub or in the slightly drunk, slightly testy aftermath of a poor England result, when the hidden stand-up comedian in you and all your mates comes out? Well this is it in book form. Observations, both amusing and dull, but unerringly negative, it is a book to dip in and out of, probably positioned by the toilet. Any attempt at a longer session will result in you throwing it across the room shouting 'get a grip, you whingeing, petulant Ladmag-reading mummies' boys.' It is different to the usual Clarkson-style fare, in that it is anti-shouty Daily Mail oversimplification, but is guilty of its own right-on version. Not for these lads the wry look, the backhanded compliment, or indeed any subtlety at all. But still worth the occasional grin. Do not buy it for your grumpy, but easily offended, grandad. It's a bit sweary. Recycled Ben Elton (02 May 2008)Reads like a Ben Elton stand-up routine from the 80s and yes, it does manage to get the term "Thatcherite" in there. This could be on the list of amusing stocking-filler type books but it's left wing bias gets tedious after a while and generally it reads like a poor attempt at "Grumpy Old Men" or "Clarkson". Having said that, there are one or two uses of the "C" word that made me laugh :) Is It just you ? (23 March 2008)A brilliant attack on everything from 'cafes that charge too much for hot drinks' to the 'daily mail'.Contains a bit too much swears then they really need, mind you I expect thay from a book with a swear in the title. The book makes good points on many subjects, though go way too far on others. All in all a good book, but there are better things to spend your time on. If You hate The Daily Mail its a must have. Not great, actually... (18 March 2008)A very dull book that reads like a pretty average sort of blog; a series of not particularly amusing or inventive rants aimed at entirely predictable targets. It is astonishing really that it seems to have taken two people to write. It would however make a perfect stocking filler if you have to buy one for a dimwit. | |
