This is a best selling book, based on the concept that everything nowadays is ridiculous. The book is at best one to keep in the toilet, to have a little chuckle over.

At 276 pages it does give you plenty to enjoy, the ideal is that they are grouped from A-Z making it much easier to read. The book is an angry look at modern life, it basically picks up on things which its authors find annoying or pointless and slates them.

The subjects range from Cafes that charge extra for a set breakfast by putting a posh tomato on it, through the Chuckle Brothers, Panninis, networking and Benjamin Zepaniah. The book is somebody angrily venting their spleen against society and many of the targets are well researched and relevant, it doesn't concentrate too heavily on any one thing and almost each review is half a page at the most, its one of those books you pick up, read a couple of pages and come back to another time, its funny at points and at times is viciously funny, at others it completely misses the mark, but then I guess a work of this size is never going to meet with everybodys approval.

The book is available for £10.99 in most high street shops, this is totally overpriced for what is really a excerpt book, it is not worth that at all, its way too easy to be challenging, it is a nice little fun book but should be less than a fiver at most, there is nothing particularly of value in anything written and you won't find yourself reading and re-reading it.


This book was part of a genre that worked for a while and caught the audience attention, its easy and lacks any real insight and has probably subsequently been included in books of this genre as an annoying thing.

Overall its worth a read but you may not agree with any of it and you definitely won't keep coming back to it, its overpriced and is in itself somewhat irritating.