Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780316729536
ISBN: 0316729531
Label: Time Warner Books
Manufacturer: Time Warner Books
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Time Warner Books
Studio: Time Warner Books

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Rating: - About ten years too late...
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: ... Read More

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Rating: - Some things are, indeed a bit poor
...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, ... Read More

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Rating: - Recycled Ben Elton
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 :)

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Rating: - Is It just you ?
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.

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Rating: - Not great, actually...
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.

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