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Praise for TV Go Home
• ‘TV GO HOME, one of the angriest and funniest websites ever.’ ESQUIRE
• ‘This is the comedy book of the year.’ HEAT
• ‘Read it and weep.’ GQ
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Book Description
Charlie Brooker's long-unavailable anarchic spoof of gadget magazines and consumerism gone mad, reissued at last!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having previously read some of Charlie Brooker's work before, I thought I knew what limits he'd go to in Unnovations. How wrong could I be?
From cover to cover, this book contains wonderful products that I never knew I wanted until I read about them (especially the "Baker-Infuriating Hat" - designed solely to insult bakers and their ilk). If you're offended by anything at all then don't bother with this, but if you're open minded about it you'll probably find this to be the funniest thing you'll have ever read.
From cover to cover, this book contains wonderful products that I never knew I wanted until I read about them (especially the "Baker-Infuriating Hat" - designed solely to insult bakers and their ilk). If you're offended by anything at all then don't bother with this, but if you're open minded about it you'll probably find this to be the funniest thing you'll have ever read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This will make you soil yourself at least once, it's so darkly funny.
Basically an Avon catalogue for the criminally deranged, it's full of stupid and evil gadgets that will generally cause the user great harm or embarassment.
Pretty throwaway really, but worth keeping around if you throw a party where sensitive types might stumble across it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you enjoy sick/surreal humour of the Nathan Barley variety, this will do it for you.
Many hilarious and bizarre ideas, mostly taken from Charlie Brooker's "Zeppotron" website. My favorite is the newsagent's shop facial disguise for trapping miniature hallucinatory prostitutes, with the nagMaster2000 as a close second.
However, I have a gripe - the graphic design is shoddy in places, particular the drawings, which simply do not match the style of the innovations catalog which the book is supposed to parody. They also re-use the same models in the photos a bit too often, and you can see the pixels in artwork obviously intended for internet delivery.
It's a shame because the pastiche advertising copy accompanying those products is no less funny. (It's great to see idiot football fans getting a thorough and well-deserved pasting. I HATE football, and I hate the proletarian chumminess surrounding football-related products.)
So, while some of the graphic work is pretty good, it looks like they rushed parts of it to meet a deadline using quickly drawn 'Desperate Dan' style cartoons instead of the witty photoshop manipulations in the rest of the catalogue.
Anyway it appears to be out of print now. I can't believe the high price of the second hand copies!!!
Many hilarious and bizarre ideas, mostly taken from Charlie Brooker's "Zeppotron" website. My favorite is the newsagent's shop facial disguise for trapping miniature hallucinatory prostitutes, with the nagMaster2000 as a close second.
However, I have a gripe - the graphic design is shoddy in places, particular the drawings, which simply do not match the style of the innovations catalog which the book is supposed to parody. They also re-use the same models in the photos a bit too often, and you can see the pixels in artwork obviously intended for internet delivery.
It's a shame because the pastiche advertising copy accompanying those products is no less funny. (It's great to see idiot football fans getting a thorough and well-deserved pasting. I HATE football, and I hate the proletarian chumminess surrounding football-related products.)
So, while some of the graphic work is pretty good, it looks like they rushed parts of it to meet a deadline using quickly drawn 'Desperate Dan' style cartoons instead of the witty photoshop manipulations in the rest of the catalogue.
Anyway it appears to be out of print now. I can't believe the high price of the second hand copies!!!
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Sadistically funny
This is satirical and scabrous, a very funny book filled with sick ideas and surreal violence. It's an excellent read, very strange in places but well worth looking at.
Published 3 months ago by Dave's Magic Codpiece
Truly Unnovative
As a fan of the always subversive Charlie Brooker, I expected to laugh in horror, and it has certainly achieved that! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Georgia Faye
A little dissapointed
I'm a big fan of Mr Brookers work, and had previously seen the Unnovations TV show on Satellite. I was expecting something quite special. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2003
Sick Minds - But I Like It
I picked this up largely due to having been hugley entertained by "TV Go Home", and partly because I used to work for Innovations, so the daft products in the Unnovations... Read more
Published on 30 July 2003 by David Atherton
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Dark, twisted, brutal, evil, and sometimes even funny.
Some of the unnovations are so ingenious you'll wonder how you never thought of it before. Read more
Published on 13 May 2003 by Warren
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