Unnovations [Illustrated] [Paperback]

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

Charlie Brooker's long-unavailable anarchic spoof of gadget magazines and consumerism gone mad, reissued at last!

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From the makers of TV GO HOME comes an hilarious comic spoof of the consumer-product catalogues that arrive like an unwanted rash from newpapers and magazines

Lovingly modelled on those catalogues that are so welcome as they spill unwanted from your weekend newspapers in a magfall of bizarre information, this is a celebration of triumphantly useless and inappropriate consumer choices. Illustrated throughout in the shape and style of catalogues that offer you the chance to buy machines that stamp your initials onto golf balls or allow you to warm you slippers electronically before putting them on. Here, then, the spirit of ‘99 Useless Japanese Inventions’ is taken to its surreal and dark logical extremities. An array of toys, gadgets, handy-helps and objects the like of which haven’t been seen since Inquisiononal torture went out of fashion: it’s a modern vision of a consumer paradise gone very weird indeed.

Lovingly modelled on those catalogues that are so welcome as they spill unwanted from your weekend newspapers in a magfall of bizarre information, this is a celebration of triumphantly useless and inappropriate consumer choices. Illustrated throughout in the shape and style of catalogues that offer you the chance to buy machines that stamp your initials onto golf balls or allow you to warm you slippers electronically before putting them on. Here, then, the spirit of ‘99 Useless Japanese Inventions’ is taken to its surreal and dark logical extremities. An array of toys, gadgets, handy-helps and objects the like of which haven’t been seen since Inquisiononal torture went out of fashion: it’s a modern vision of a consumer paradise gone very weird indeed.

Zeppotron co-founder Charlie Brooker is the creator of tvgohome.com, a hugely successful comedy website that attracts around 400,000 hits per month. His previous writing credits include The Guardian, The 11 O'clock Show, E4.com, Loaded, Select, Ministry, The Daily Telegraph, Dreamcast, PC Zone, Oink!, and Stuff. He has also worked as a cartoonist and illustrator, creating comic strips and pictorial articles for many of the above publications. He was writer-presenter of BBC Radio One's Digital Update, co-presented BBC Knowledge technology show The Kit and currently writes a weekly TV column for the Guardian Guide.