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`Our favourite book of the year so far. Whether it be cosmic, eco, medical, technological, religious or personal doom, this book will help you prepare and learn to live with the inevitable impending end.' --Time Out Blog, January 2012
`Great wit and charm' --The Financial Times Blog, January 2012
'I got quite caught up in this book. It's a quick read with some fascinating titbits of information'
--London Student, Seamus Fitz, January 2012
`Great wit and charm' --The Financial Times Blog, January 2012
'I got quite caught up in this book. It's a quick read with some fascinating titbits of information'
--London Student, Seamus Fitz, January 2012
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Our next date with Doom is scheduled for 31st December 2012... A timely, erudite and hilarious end of the world compendium and companion guide, from Britain's best comic illustrator.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book both manages to skewer our fears and assuage them. Very, very funny and the cartoons are genius. I'm giving them as Christmas gifts! If the apocalypse is going to be this funny, bring it on.
Format:Hardcover
Not sure that the concept for this book holds together: get Lester to list the ways we might all perish and ask Stephen Appleby to illustrate it. The text is profoundly bleak and the illustrations aren't funny enough to make up for this. I'm a big admirer of Appleby's but this is a waste of his talent. I'm afraid I hated this so much I'll be using it to light my stove...
A previous reviewer criticised this book and was then accused of having personality problems, so bring it on if you must...!
A previous reviewer criticised this book and was then accused of having personality problems, so bring it on if you must...!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Coffee Table Book of Doom is a wonderful collaborative effort by the remarkably talented duo of Steven Appleby and Art Lester. Together they have created a darkly hilarious illustrated book that reveals the many ways in which the world is likely explode, erupt, flood, burn, be zapped by the death rays of mad scientists, bombarded by asteroids or depopulated by superbugs.
The bad news is that we could go at any time and apparently 2012 is a popular year on doom calendars.
There is no good news.
All this should be no laughing matter but Appleby and Lester present their many doom scenarios in such a charming way that you can't help but sit back and enjoy (laugh). The book's witty, thought-provoking text combines seamlessly with Appleby's superb illustrations and commentary. It's irreverent, clever, informative, absurd and very, very funny.
Tip 1: Buy this wonderful book and put in on your coffee table.
Tip 2: Buy a hard hat and a gas mask.
Tip 3: Stock up on tinned food and consider digging a bunker.
Tip 3: Keep any eye out for stray asteroids.
The bad news is that we could go at any time and apparently 2012 is a popular year on doom calendars.
There is no good news.
All this should be no laughing matter but Appleby and Lester present their many doom scenarios in such a charming way that you can't help but sit back and enjoy (laugh). The book's witty, thought-provoking text combines seamlessly with Appleby's superb illustrations and commentary. It's irreverent, clever, informative, absurd and very, very funny.
Tip 1: Buy this wonderful book and put in on your coffee table.
Tip 2: Buy a hard hat and a gas mask.
Tip 3: Stock up on tinned food and consider digging a bunker.
Tip 3: Keep any eye out for stray asteroids.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Doom but no Gloom!
I was given this book for a Christmas present and I couldn't put it down. I wan't the only one either as it aroused curiousity in everyone. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Matt O'Gara
THIS IS FUNNY???
I received this as an Xmas present and yes, it did raise a few chuckles - at first. But the subject overall isn't at all funny (as another reviewer commented), and quite correctly... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mitreman
Humour with a bite
It is, at first, tempting to treat this book as a laugh. It is, indeed, humorous both in the text and the superb illustrations. Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. B. Godfrey
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