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Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? (udgave 2005)

af Alan McArthur and Steve Lowe

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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.… (mere)
Medlem:batshit
Titel:Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?
Forfattere:Alan McArthur and Steve Lowe
Info:Little, Brown Book Group (2005), Hardcover, 288 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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Nøgleord:ranting, cynicism

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Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life af Alan McArthur

  1. 20
    It is Just You - Everything's Not Shit af Steve Stack (hnau)
    hnau: 'It Is Just You' was written in response to 'Is It Just Me' (volumes 1 and 2).
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A somewhat dated but still entertaining short piece of A trough Z pablum, with a blend of Anglo and Yank cultural irritants. Cheney, Che Guevera, China, Dubai, Michael Jackson Fans, Internet cafes, Kabbalah, Mac lovers, lists, SUVs, bottled water, food courts, and waits on Everest are some of the irritating topics. ( )
  Sandydog1 | Mar 9, 2019 |
Entertaining world class cynicism that I found myself enjoying. My sometimes fleeting thoughts on issues came back, it was uncomfortably invoking my predjudice. ( )
  Mike-Fitzgibbons | Sep 30, 2012 |
The authors of this book do have a point; much our world’s culture today really is morally bankrupt, dishonest, and just plain hopelessly insane. In alphabetical order, Is it Just Me’s authors eviscerate these modern foibles with a sarcastic and humorous wit like Louis Black on speed with a potty mouth. There is little that escapes the authors’ ire from all sides of the political and cultural spectrum, although they seem to reserve a special disdain for the Bush Administration and certain music industry figures (including, no doubt, the term “music industry figures”). Some of their targets, like Hip Hotels, simply won’t resonate with the daily experiences of busy dads (our definition of a hip, trendy hotel is more likely to be the Nickelodeon Suites near Disney World). Others, like Organic Consumer Scans, are annoyances that we all share. But still others speak directly to the experience of being a modern father, and it’s both empowering and outrageously amusing to hear the authors say the things that we’ve all been thinking about topics like:

  • Bratz: “It’s a sort of celebutard training course for six-year-olds.”

  • Designer Baby Clothes: “Yes, it’s so important to dress the baby right – you know, to dangle wealth off it.”

  • DVDs with Ads You Can’t Skip: “Just in case you thought it was perfectly legal to burn copies of DVDs but only if you went to Norway and did it.”

  • Juice Drink: “What happened there, then? What did you do with all the juice?”


Whatever you may think of their opinions on other topics, when it comes to kids and fatherhood, you’ll find yourself nodding along and even laughing out loud to the authors’ observations of the modern and often baffling world that we’re raising our children in. (caution for extremely strong language). Review by Book Dads ( )
  bookdads | Feb 12, 2009 |
Mildly titallitating at first but quick bores into easy cheap cynicism. I love a good rant every so often but collated like this it just gets a bit tiring. The contents would have been ideal as a weekly column in a weekend newspaper supplement. ( )
1 stem joes | Nov 8, 2006 |
Above average toilet reading. Made me chuckle to myself a few times.

This book is basically a list of things which annoy the authors and their views on those things. You will find yourself nodding in agreement at a lot of their observations. Worth a read. ( )
  KeithJenner | Oct 31, 2006 |
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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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