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"Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life"

Alan McArthur, Steve Lowe

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Hardcover - (November 3, 2005) 288 pages

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MARIE CLAIRE
'An A-Z rant about the naffness of modern life that's so relentlessly bitter it's actually rather uplifting'

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'A life-affirming guide to the modern world'

Synopsis
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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1 out of 5 stars Is it just me, or is this book sh*t?, March 3, 2006
Reviewer: thymetraveller from Aylesford, KENT United Kingdom
This was given as a Christmas present, possibnly under the assumption that it was humorous. After reading (or, should I say, attempting) the first few chapters I gave up.
If life is this bad, there is no reason to live. To answer the cover question, it IS you.
Grumpy old men? At least they were funny.
Sorry, but this book is just bad. Not even worthy of the seconds bin I am afraid.
Avoid.

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2 out of 5 stars Too Much Obscure Material, February 26, 2006
Reviewer: ash-uk from West Sussex, England
While there is no doubt this book has its funny moments, there are too many references to obscure or inapposite material - which is a shame given that there are so many things out there that are rubbish, incompetent or downright duplicitous and worthy of a good bitch and moan. While reading it, I flicked past many of the less interesting items and came to the conclusion that they outweighed the good ones.

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