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Books : Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline
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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline by: Charlie Brooker List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.00 You Save: £4.99 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780571238415 ISBN: 0571238416 Label: Faber and Faber Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: November 01, 2007 Publisher: Faber and Faber Studio: Faber and Faber Sales Rank: 276 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - laugh out loud funnyAs a devoted fan of Brooker's weekly column in the Guardian weekend supplement I knew I would have seen some of these columns however that didn't put me off buying it. Often his cutting use of sarcasm will still make you spit out your tea on the 4th or 5th read. No target is off limits - 9/11 conspirators, Reality TV (especially Reality TV), minor celebrities, major celebrities - no one is safe from Brooker's rage! Not just for fans - he will make you laugh...unless you seriously think Big Brother is a fantastic TV program :) Rating:  - "Kitchen sink" approach doesn't really do the reader many favoursBrooker is currently the best-loved pop culture pundit amongst the jaded workshy internet-hogging sullen misanthrope demographic. This is an indesputable fact. He has sat aside the collective imagination of this unhappy group like a grumpy colossus since the launch of the spoof listings website TVGoHome back in what now feels like the mid-1800s, and he continues to do so with his Guardian articles and the brilliant Screenwipe show, which I'll wager most of you have seen on the Guardian website and youtube respectively rather than in actual grubby print or on actual proper telly. This all feels very word-of-mouthy and grass-rootsy, with friends slinging URLs at you every time he says something particularly interesting or rude, and part of the ... Read More: Rating: - Charlie Brooker is right about everythingThis is a collection of Charlie Brooker's newspaper articles and TV reviews from 2004 to 2007. About half is television reviews, the other half is what I'd hesitantly call 'lifestyle' which can cover anything from Facebook to haircuts to Banksy. Brooker is the best ascerbic angry writer and reviewer there is. Maintaining an almost constant level of fury throughout, underneath the sarcasm and the comedic threats of violence are reams of very interesting points about the TV we watch and the culture we're a part of it. To really appreciate some of the TV reviews you'll be better off if you do have an idea how Big Brother works, or who Gillian McKeith is, and if you do know those things but you wish you didn't, then even ... Read More: Rating:  - Spider Jerusalem meets Oliver Kalkofe ... the first one being the "Transmetropolitan" comic series cynic' journalist/hero, the second being a German comedian feared and loved for his witty comments on German TV rubbish. Too obscure? That's exactly my problem with Brooker's book: Not coming from the UK, I haven't heard of half of the TV shows he refers to, and hardly ever bothered to watch the (usually: continental version of the) other half. But brainless idiocy is a world-wide phenomenon - the mindless TV formats and media goons are indeed so generic that it doesn't really matter. Throughout most of the book, the author is busy shouting back at TV shows that would insult a six-year-old's intelligence and sense of taste. Funny, witty, and aimed at a deserving ... Read More: Rating: - Puerile, mordant, geniusPoor old Charlie Brooker. He's a man out of time, trapped in a world he understands little and likes even less. Here is an essentially decent, liberal man who feels the need to defenestrate himself for our reading pleasure each week in the dear ol' Grauniad. Reading this book is really like reading a potted social history of recent times, or at least for most of this book the televisual part of it. CB takes random and withering potshots at most of the deserving targets of our pathetic adulterated culture. Thankfully, most of the time, he manages to score direct hits. And how. This book is not really to be read cover to cover, instead to be dipped in and out of because these columns were produced to be satisfying little gobbets; ... Read More: |
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