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Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life | 
| Authors: Alan Mcarthur, Steve Lowe
Publisher: Time Warner Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3643
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316729531
EAN: 9780316729536
ASIN: 0316729531
Publication Date: 2006
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Some things are, indeed a bit poor August 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
...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, petulant Ladmag-reading mummies' boys.'
It is different to the usual Clarkson-style fare, in that it is anti-shouty Daily Mail oversimplification, but is guilty of its own right-on version.
Not for these lads the wry look, the backhanded compliment, or indeed any subtlety at all. But still worth the occasional grin. Do not buy it for your grumpy, but easily offended, grandad. It's a bit sweary.
Recycled Ben Elton May 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 :)
 Not great, actually... March 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 It's REAL political correctness - not tokenism December 29, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the sort of book that people need to read. It seems to be just another slag off text but, on closer inspection, it is not only the funniest thing I've read in a long time but, it has a real social conscience. It doesn't just prod, it gives a full on smack in the mouth to so many things that need it!
The only thing missing, for me, was an entry on Brian Sewell. This book would do him justice I think.
Not as good as I expected December 29, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mildly humourous is places, quite interesting in others, but generally far to left-wing for my liking. If it had kept some of it's Socialist views to itself it could have been a good book. As it is, it was mostly a waste of money that went striaght to the dump before I'd finished it. If there was an option to give nil stars, that's what I'd give it
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