If You Only Read One Book This Year...
…please make sure it’s NOT the one I’ve just finished. It was called “Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia Of Modern Life” and was heralded as a “very funny, well-informed, belligerent rant of a book that adds up to an excoriating broadside against consumer capitalism…”
Two points of note for the authors:
1) If you set out to write a “very funny” book, it would make sense to check whether you have a sense of humour. You do not.
2) Given point 1, you could have saved some face by including your book IN your book, if you see what I mean. You don’t? Really? Let me spell it out then. Your book was shit. So much so that I’m too embarrassed to give it away to a charity shop to help with their fundraising.
Who says I couldn’t work in the arts section of a classy newspaper swigging red wine and spouting insightful opinions? Which reminds me. I just read an article on the dangers of drinking. Scared the shit out of me! So that’s it - after today, no more fucking reading.
Two points of note for the authors:
1) If you set out to write a “very funny” book, it would make sense to check whether you have a sense of humour. You do not.
2) Given point 1, you could have saved some face by including your book IN your book, if you see what I mean. You don’t? Really? Let me spell it out then. Your book was shit. So much so that I’m too embarrassed to give it away to a charity shop to help with their fundraising.
Who says I couldn’t work in the arts section of a classy newspaper swigging red wine and spouting insightful opinions? Which reminds me. I just read an article on the dangers of drinking. Scared the shit out of me! So that’s it - after today, no more fucking reading.
posted by Neil @ 12:01 am
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3 Comments:
ha! nice neily
Talking of swigging red wine. I watched Sideways tonight on your recommendation. Good tip so I'll trust your judgement and steer clear of "Is it just me?". And don't believe anything you read about excessive drinking - take it from a girl who lives in Bordeaux.
Soaps,
I presume there wasn't any pictures or big writing.
DC
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