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‘Best toilet book I’ve read in a while’ BEN HATCH, author of ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?
‘A very funny collection of things that have gone out of fashion’ JEN CAMPBELL, author of WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY IN BOOKSHOPS
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A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.
We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.
Until now, that is.
Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction.
Some of them have vanished already.
Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo…
…all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
You really do have to be over thirty to get the most out of this book, though my fourteen-year old remembers some of them. I'm just shy of fifty and will admit I was unaware of some of the toys in here, but yes, I remember Sinclair Spectrums, sweet tobacco (it never encouraged me to smoke) and 8-track stereos. I still think snickers are Marathons, Starbursts are Opal Fruits and G00d God! My daughter tells me Bounty bars have changed their name now, too! I loved Texan bars and Old English Spangles, too.
This is a book to dip in and out of rather than a sit-and-read. Quite a trip down nostalgia lane.
This is a book to dip in and out of rather than a sit-and-read. Quite a trip down nostalgia lane.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When my copy arrived I thought I'd just flick through it but ended up reading it from cover to cover. Brilliant, funny and nostalgic. So much "I remember those!", shows I'm getting old. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love this book. I have a particular interest in all things gone the dodo way, but never mind that.
The entries in Steve Stack's 21st Century Dodos are brilliantly, and dare I say, lovingly chosen. From Ring Pulls to Midland Bank and Green Shield Stamps, the author breezes wittily through, offering fetching fond farewells to all manner of things gone, just plain gone. Or going.
My personal favorite is Texan Bars. As I hail from the American South, rapture was upon me as I first thought that those god-awful Texan drinking bars had finally been closed for health and safety reasons. It's really sad that he was referring to a chocolate bar.
You'll love the way Steve Stack's prose whips across the page:
"Liquorice Pipes"
"Famous pipe smokers of the world include Harold Wilson, Monsieur Hulot, Tony Benn. And seven-year-old Steve Stack, walking home from school puffing away on a liquorice pipe."
I bought two copies of 21st Century Dodos - and please forgive this tired old phrase that is not yet a dodo - because this book makes a perfect gift.
The entries in Steve Stack's 21st Century Dodos are brilliantly, and dare I say, lovingly chosen. From Ring Pulls to Midland Bank and Green Shield Stamps, the author breezes wittily through, offering fetching fond farewells to all manner of things gone, just plain gone. Or going.
My personal favorite is Texan Bars. As I hail from the American South, rapture was upon me as I first thought that those god-awful Texan drinking bars had finally been closed for health and safety reasons. It's really sad that he was referring to a chocolate bar.
You'll love the way Steve Stack's prose whips across the page:
"Liquorice Pipes"
"Famous pipe smokers of the world include Harold Wilson, Monsieur Hulot, Tony Benn. And seven-year-old Steve Stack, walking home from school puffing away on a liquorice pipe."
I bought two copies of 21st Century Dodos - and please forgive this tired old phrase that is not yet a dodo - because this book makes a perfect gift.
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Don't show it to your husband.
When going on holiday I offered this to my husband as his reading matter. He declined, he's not much of a reader. So I took it instead. Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. King
Brilliant
One of those rare books that you think to yourself "any minute now he'll mention...." and there it is, uncanny how the author is a step ahead of you so often. 01 811 8055. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Greg
Well remembered
Really takes you back to those forgotten items from our youth that we cherished in those days and sorely (?) missed today. Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. J. West
Undemanding Easy Read
This book is an undemanding easy read that I dipped in and out of over a period of months. It offers a wide variety of topics, many of which took me down memory land but some of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by DJ Kirkby
Oh the memories!
A great little book, of all the things remembered from recent times; from 20ish years ago until recently. Short bites, that all the family enjoyed
Published 3 months ago by John
A wallow in nostalgia
A great download which brought back a rich vein of memories for me. My only regret is that I'm too old (68)to appreciate some of the entries. Read more
Published 4 months ago by D. Massey
Good trip down memory lane for those aged 35+
If you are aged 35 and above you will enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane of childhood items, sweets and gadgets that are no longer with us. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ms. J. L. Woodward
Who said nostalgia was a thing of the past ?
This is a cracking wee book but only if you are pushing mid thirties and upwards.
It has brought a host of memories for me and its written in a fun and jaunty... Read more
It has brought a host of memories for me and its written in a fun and jaunty... Read more
Published 4 months ago by James Smith
Another great title from Steve Stack
I'm a great fan of Steve Stack's light and humorous style, so it was a treat to have another one of his books to read. '21st Century Dodo's' did not disappoint. Read more
Published 6 months ago by blameless
Nostalgia With a Twist
The word "extinct" doesn't normally come to mind when thinking of inanimate objects, but Steve Stack has compiled a book of those "unsung cultural icons of society" that have gone... Read more
Published 6 months ago by JSC
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