In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise re-emergence from eighteenth century retirement and began Twittering.
It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the 'greatest' thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its 'star'.
Our gouty man of letters finds the modern world in a parlous state. It is peopled with fools like "Raisin-ey'd Tyrant Mister Nick GRIFFIN" and "BABOON-SLAYER, Fop, Macaroni, Dandy & Folderol, Mister AA Gill". His attempts to negotiate a path through the vagaries of modern life do not fare well either - for instance, on a trip to "Mister LIBERTY'S blast'd Haberdashery", upon finding "all else clad as Lumber-Jacks, I left thwart'd & alone... unwilling to dress as an unmanly Pastiche of Mister COBAIN."
In his Dictionary of Modern Life, our gouty man of letters takes a wickedly funny look at all things modern. From Top Gear and the Daily Mail to Dubstep and Celebrity Big Brother, nothing escapes his sardonic gaze.
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An actual genius * Ben Goldacre * An actual genius * Ben Goldacre * Hilarious * Peter Serafinowicz * Hilarious * Peter Serafinowicz *
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978-1-4070-7339-2 (9781407073392)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The latter-day Dr Johnson is AKA Tom Morton. Tom was born in Berkshire in 1973 and studied Politics as Bristol University. He has spent the last fouteen years working in advertising. Thanks to an inspiring history teacher at school, he has always had a soft spot for the eighteenth century. This is his first book.
