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by Luke Wright (Author), Joel Stickley (Author) "you're crying ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0241143772
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241143773
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 189,218 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Who writes this Crap owes its superb strike-rate to the fatuity and vacuity of all the verbal junk it so accurately mimics. From fancy snack foods (. . .) to corporate disclaimers, they leave no brand of modern toxic text unscorned' Independent

No piece of writing escapes the satirical re-invention of these two acclaimed performance poets. Great fun - LOL funny (Big Issue in the North ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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All the rubbish you read in a day – rewritten!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a find, 14 Nov 2007
By Andy T (London) - See all my reviews
Wow.. Thanks to whoever left this book on the train. It brightened up my otherwise dull journey. Guess what I'm getting everyone for Christmas!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Oh. My. God., 2 Nov 2007
I have never laughed so much when reading a book. In fact, I am not sure I have ever laughed so much, so much so that a little bit of wee came out. I had heard that this was going to be good, but I was a little sceptical. 'Let's all take the mickey of the modern world, oh how funny' is something that everyone seems to be doing at the moment. But it is done with such finesse, such wit and skill that this book really stands apart from the rest of the crowd- they whimper in its shadow. And they're probably paperbacks too.

The book's basically a day in the life of someone who reads everything they see, and I mean everything: junk mail, ingredients, adverts, spam, road signs. You go through the day and see all the stuff as the character does, except everything is a parody or a satire of the real thing. One of my favourite bits is a spam email from a Nigerian prince who speaks perfect english and is a bit embarrassed about the whole asking-for-money thing. There's also moisturiser labels for today's uber-masculine men, diet strategies boasting of calorie-free products (where calorie free actually means you get all the calories for free) and product recall based on babyfood containing glass and tiny notes with swearwords on.
You can't fail to love this book. It's so accessible. Even my Grandad laughed, and he's dead.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The boys done good, 6 Nov 2007
By Paul Hayes (Norwich, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book does not contain a parody of user-submitted reviews to popular retail websites, which is a bit of a relief as otherwise this missive of mine would only come across looking like a parody of a parody. It does, however, contain well-executed spoofs of just about every other type of written communication we have around us in the dizzying modern world in which we live - text messages, e-mails, adverts, magazines, newspapers, food labels... Anything and everything is grist to the satirical mill of this pair.

Speaking of the authors, I should immediately declare an interest here and admit that I know Messers Stickley and Wright - or at least, I've met them, anyway, having been acquainted with them a few years ago at university. They were a couple of years above me but I knew them from the creative writing society - Luke Wright I didn't really know that well and don't think I ever spoke to but I recall him being at several of the meetings. Joel Stickley I knew a little better, he was the president of the society and we got along quite well - I was always impressed by the stuff he read out, and it was when randomly checking the internet to see whether he'd had a novel published yet that I discovered this book was coming out and placed my order. And I am very glad that I did.

Like a television sketch show, not every single joke hits the mark but it doesn't really matter because you know there's always another one along on the next page. It's the perfect sort of a book to dip into or out of while you are, say, waiting for a bus, and some of its piercingly accurate and at times rather depressing echoes of modern life will strike a chord with anyone who has ever, for instance, worked for a temp agency doing boring office admin work. It's not a completely disparate collection either, as the reader who pays attention will be rewarded by seeing recurring threads and names and themes running through the book.

While it is amusing, some of the realities of modern life it covers can be quite bleak at times, and in that respect it evokes the much-missed BBC Three animation "Monkey Dust". But like that show, it makes you glad there are still people in the world who can point out the madness that is around us and know it for what it is - so even if nobody has any solutions, we can at least have a decent laugh about it along the way.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Personification of Ghastliness
Very badly written, very unfunny, Very bad full stop.

One can but make the presumption that the 5-star reviews are written by friends of the authors... Read more
Published 7 months ago by anonymous

5.0 out of 5 stars I'd definately recommend it.
I'm slightly wary of writing a review for this book, in the fear that Mr Wright and Mr Stickley might rip me to shreds and mock me with a paraody of my own writing in the sequel... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Michael A. Whitehead

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear.........
Title sums it up really. Not big, not funny and certainly not clever. Can't say I really got the point. A literary masterpiece? I think not!
Published 24 months ago by Joey

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny funny book!
I got this book for my birthday and read it all in the space of one evening. I found myself laughing out loud. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2007 by bookworm

1.0 out of 5 stars Who writes this crap ?
Funny it isn't. I bought the book to read on a long train journey but would have done better reading the outside of my cornflakes packet. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2007 by Mike Booth

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