- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; First Edition edition (16 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091895863
- ISBN-13: 978-0091895860
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 573,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A truly shocking book', Independent .'It is refreshing to find a book that attempts to understand and enjoy the passionate technicolour diversity of modern youth culture', Daily Telegraph .'Sure, some of it's shocking, but it's also positive and hopeful, too', Elle .'Barham is firmly on the side of the kids... He goes to anti-globalisation and anti-war marches, to raves and festivals and the PlayStation Experience at Earls Court. His interviewees talk freely to him about taking shed-loads of E and ketamine (originally a horse anaesthetic)... He sees people wearing T-Shirts that say "Jesus is a c**t", watches Jackass, surfs porn, and visits the bondage nightclub Torture Garden to see people having sex in public...Barham muses provocatively', Guardian .'He dashes all over the place, like a search engine set to random, like an ad exec brainstorming... It's full of fun', Daily Telegraph
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The most important book on modern youth since Generation X
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book utterly engrossing from the moment i picked it up. Being a "generation x-er" myself i felt releived that someone with enough sensitivity and good humour was able to lift the lid on activities (some illicit, some law abiding) that even i didn't know much about.
Nick doesn't get in the way as he interviews scores of kids, and allows them to speak their minds on the issues and activities that today's youth are heavily involved in and attracting the worst publicity. The issues featured in the book cover the lot: promiscuous sex, friendship, alternate realities and gaming, drug taking, the exhaulstless as porn and violence to be found on the internet. Overall though, i felt the message was that these kids (myself included) habour a deep need for community and significance, as every other generation has before us. But we are finding more and more that we don't fit comfortably into the model of community handed down to us.
Disconnected explores these social fragmentations, as Nick delves deep alongside the characters whose stories have been used in this book, apparently making friends with them in the process. The tales and explanations for their seemingly chaotic behaviour are honest and unguarded.
you might not agree with all the activities featured in this book, but you will have your eyes opened and prejudices softened.
And that is one of the first steps in helping to bridge the enourmous genereation gap we currently have in Britain.
Nick doesn't get in the way as he interviews scores of kids, and allows them to speak their minds on the issues and activities that today's youth are heavily involved in and attracting the worst publicity. The issues featured in the book cover the lot: promiscuous sex, friendship, alternate realities and gaming, drug taking, the exhaulstless as porn and violence to be found on the internet. Overall though, i felt the message was that these kids (myself included) habour a deep need for community and significance, as every other generation has before us. But we are finding more and more that we don't fit comfortably into the model of community handed down to us.
Disconnected explores these social fragmentations, as Nick delves deep alongside the characters whose stories have been used in this book, apparently making friends with them in the process. The tales and explanations for their seemingly chaotic behaviour are honest and unguarded.
you might not agree with all the activities featured in this book, but you will have your eyes opened and prejudices softened.
And that is one of the first steps in helping to bridge the enourmous genereation gap we currently have in Britain.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Nick Barham's book is a valuable counterweight to the despairing tone of most books and articles about British youth.
Like most writers on youth, Barham concentrates on the outer limits of British youth culture: all-night raves, fetish clubs, car modifiers, computer game addicts and violent inner cities.
But instead of presenting what he sees as a riot of wanton behaviour, Barham asks young people what they're up to and why they're doing it. He's interested, charming and non-judgemental, far closer to inquistive enthusiasm of Malcolm Gladwell than to the freak-show cynicism of Louis Theroux or Jon Ronson.
His conclusion is profound. Mainstream opinion characterizes kids as apathetic. The truth is that they're channeling their energies elsewhere. Young people are making their own communities, with their own rules, languages and values. Behind the souped-up Corsas, the dressed-up clubbing or the unravelled culture of the skate park lie a set of communities that give young people a sense of belonging and expression that they don't find in work, education or the mass media.
Give the book a go. You might not relate to the kid with the joint in his mouth and the spraycan in his hand, but at least you'll begin to understand him.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
That's what this book could have been called. It's loads of interviews with boys and girls across Britain, about the stuff that we like doing - shoppin, clubbin, smoking dope, having sex with people our parents don't like - but which doesn't have a go at us for doing these things. it's smart and genuine...and the first time in ages i've read something that doesn't say all kids are stupid and selfish. If you're over 20, read it and understand us a bit more.....
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