Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? - Volume Two
Published on 2. November 2006
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-316-02996-4 (ISBN)
Description
Bigger, badder, sharper, ruder, funnier, bestier ...this all-new companion volume to the 2005 Christmas bestseller IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? perfectly complements the first book to form the standard reference work on the shittiness of modern life - like a part-work, only good. Entries include: David Cameron, Lemsip, Baby Asbos, Dream homes, the Chinese Communist Party, Chefs' families, Zac Goldsmith, the Olympics, Credit cards marketed as sources of spiritual enlightenment, Nu-Torture, Cornish nationalism, Detox socks, Stag weeks and Politicians called David. Because, if anything, it just keeps getting worse ...
Reviews / Votes
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 MenMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Little, Brown & Company
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-02996-4 (9780316029964)
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Additional editions
Steve Lowe | Alan McArthur
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? - Volume Two
E-Book
09/2008
Sphere
€3.99
Available for download
Persons
Steve Lowe has written for numerous publications including Q, BIG ISSUE and BLENDER. Alan McArthur was deputy editor of SOLIDARITY and has worked on campaigns for free education. They met at Cardiff University. This is their second book (writing, not reading).