If you hate: loft living; bar-clubs; Tony Blair; chick lit; global warming sceptics; Keane; loyalty cards; IKEA; Kabbalah; bling and Richard Curtis...then you need IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? - an encylopedic attack on modern culture and the standard reference work for everyone who believes everything is shit. Which it is. This book is for the large percentage of the population interested in saying NO to the phoney ideas, cretinous people, useless products and doublespeak that increasingly dominate our lives. This book is designed for everyone who thinks they may have mislaid their soul in a Coffee Republic. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit. This very funny, well-informed, belligerent rant of a book adds up to an excoriating broadside against consumer capitalism that the authors hope will sell loads of copies.
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There are perky self-help books and then theirs is IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT?, an A-Z rant about the naffness of modern life that's so relentlessly bitter it's actually rather uplifting. Dissing everything from Keane ("Tom Chaplin's face has no edges") to cardboard-tasting paninis to the overuse of Manolo Blahniks as a metaphor it's, dare we say it, more piercing than a Manolo heel MARIE CLAIRE Bilious old-codgering taken to the highest possible level as authors vent anger over the crassness and mediocrity of modern life cf. "juice drinks", Otis Ferry, Kabbalah, foot spas, Sam Taylor-Wood and pubs playing "mellow dance grooves". Excellent entry TIME OUT A life-affirming guide to the modern world ESQUIRE One of the many things that irritates these guys is rave reviews: so I'll just say it's very funny and recommend you to buy it. Unless of course you're a big fan of the Daily Mail Stewart Prebble, author of Grumpy Old Men
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Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur write about music and politics for various newspapers. They have a sneaking suspicion that everything is shit. This is their first book.
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If you're not from the United Kingdom don't waste your money. I spent a few years in Europe and found maybe 1/3 of this book entertaining. The rest made no sense because it is mostly UK related. If you're from the UK, have a dry sense of humor or you have been forced to watch the BBC for three years this book is for you.
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I'm halfway through and I've had alot of laughs already,
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I picked this up. Just in the mood for something dry and funny. I got that with this book. The segment on Sex and the city has been worth reading it alone.
Very British. Written for the British. Which is fine. I'm Australian so I know what they are talking about in ninety percent of the time. If you know what they mean by Tony Blair, New Labour, Tesco's etc. Then this book is funny. Even if you don't know alot about Britain it's still a funny book. Because alot of the scenarios they talk about is common to all western countries.
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I came close to having an accident I laughed so hard at these guys. This book might require a taste for British humor, though.
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