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Screen Burn | 
 enlarge | Author: Charlie Brooker
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £4.72
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2668
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0571227554
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780571227556
ASIN: 0571227554
Publication Date: December 2, 2004
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Funniest book I have read for a while March 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am always a little suspicious when a book tells me I will "laugh out loud" because often as not I find myself reading it stone faced waiting for nuggets of wit that never seem to come.
This book genuinely does what it says on the cover. Due mostly to a hugely funny use of over the top metaphor and comparatives.
Similar to Clarkson but funnier and ruder. Buy it, you won't regret it.
The funniest book I have ever read November 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This man's grasp of language, his misanthropy and his FURY make him the funniest non-fiction writer there is. "Screen Burn" is an absolute masterpiece of bile, wit and (in fact) refusal to burp along with the "It's just a bit of fun, innit?" mentality that poisons so much modern TV.
His reviews also prove just what an assured judge of quality he is, as he comes out in favour of programmes which have since been hailed as classics.
He is compulsively readable and magnificently, blisteringly funny.
 Good read at work!!. November 30, 2006
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
Screen Burn is a collection of scathingly funny observations about TV programs taken from a popular uk newspaper from 2001-2004;and compiled into one big book.Charlie Brooker wrote the articals,and of course is the author of the book(screen burn).The articles are all in nice bite size 1-3 page chunks;so like me you can pick it up and put it down when it suits you and not loose the plot,or have the agony of putting it down when it was just getting good.Some storys had me laughing out loud,and some that i could not relate to didn't;either way you know at some point you will come across one sooner or later that will satisfy you entertainment needs.
Charley Brooker also makes you say to your-self,"yes!! it's about time someone said that about that program and this person".He certainly gives some of his 'victims' a good hiding, and pays compliments where it's due.
The reason i gave this only three stars is because he can rant a bit to much,and could write a bit more about some of the TV programs that i myself thought were a load of old tosh....yes i know, hows he supposed to know that, but.. well some people are never happy are they....I recommend this book if you want a bit of fun when you are board and want some TV junk therapy....
I think I wet myself! September 27, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Having to commute to work on the same bus as school kids Is a nightmare, you really wish for a baseball bat sometimes! Thankfully there's Screen Burn to dispense with the vitriol at the world on my behalf! Thank you Charlie!! Every day I would be almost wetting myself laughing to myself on the bus while reading this, venting of the spleen. Give this man a primetime show on the Beeb NOW!!!
 TV OD August 7, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Absolutely laugh out loud funny.Normally books collecting various reviews/columns together can be heavy going but Charlie will have you in stitches,all targets are available for termination and he wears his heart on his sleeve.His ire is particularly reserved for Us the general public when we deign to enter the TV world through programs such as Pop Idol etc.We deserve it!(Probably)And he is a man who genuinely understands what the word "celebrity" means.In other words it's used far too often these days in the wrong context.A great read ,funnier than Clarkson.
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