- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Duck Editions; Revised edition edition (7 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071563108X
- ISBN-13: 978-0715631089
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.9 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jonathan Coe, Books of the Year 2001, Guardian
'... its energetic quirkiness hides an alert, fiercely perceptive sensibility.'
Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
'... the almost perfect execution of this idea gives the whole book a kind of plausibility, as well as a sense of the poetry of the world.'
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Tim Etchells' Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer is my favourite book of the year so far - and I've read quite a few. As in Endland Stories, his previous collection of short fiction, these 'dreams' and their 'interpretations' offer fractured glimpses of contemporary life which are both hilarious and acute. This is a book that you can go back to again and again. The dreams will stay with you. Very, very funny.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's pretty obvious why there are two five-star reviews and two of the one-star variety. This book is far more a meditation on modern life than a way to decode your dreams. It breezes through an imaginative range of contemporary phenomena and events and gives a series of wry comments. The book is certainly funny and dissects what we encounter everyday in the disguise of an almanac. It is witty and exceptionally insightful. While it's very amusing, it's not a 'humour' book as such, just as little as it's something for the dreaded mind, botty, spirit shelves that seem to have profilerated over the past decade.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First - a caveat. This is decidedly not one of those books where charlatans who have studied Freud for a fortnight exploit either the credulous or the sleep-deprived by 'explaining' their dreams. In a way, it could be seen as a parody of them, but it's much more (and much stranger) than that.
It's a peculiar meditation on the fractured, troubled, celebrity and material-obsessed society we live in, always thought-provoking and puzzling. It reminds me most of Ben Marcus's 'Age of Wire and String' in its efforts to take debased symbols and make them new and strange.It is almost perfectly judged - you keep thinking he'll never keep it up over a whole book, but somehow he does.
Probably more likely to give you puzzling dreams than explain them, it's not for everyone, but well worth a look for the enquiring soul.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Laugh out loud - but don't try to interpret dreams!
What are some of the most common dreams? Toilet dreams? Pregnancy dreams? Any mention of either in this book - nada. Read more
Published on 20 April 2010 by Hugo Minney
Totally bizarre dreams
I found this a very strange book. I expected an updated dream dictionary but this book is full of totally bizarre dreams, e.g. The whistling craze. Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2001 by chrissie.macdougall@ukgateway.net
Not worth having
I bought this book for my sister as a gift and her response to the book was very negative. I then decided to look at the book myself. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2001
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