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 enlarge | Author: Charlie Brooker
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £3.67
You Save: £6.32 (63%)
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 317
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0571238416
EAN: 9780571238415
ASIN: 0571238416
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new, in stock. Shipped from the UK by First Class Royal Mail service in eco-friendly packaging.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brilliant both in bed and out. January 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I started off reading it in sequence. I put it down. I read it backwards for a bit. I put it down. I jumped in and read things anew. Not the way to read a book.
Most 'articles' have at least two guffaws, most will leave you thinking about stuff like 'you'. There are many histerical laughs that you need to find another person, to tell them, about it. You will become irritating. Brilliant book for those hard 'stools'. Charlie himself (you might not have noticed by reading his Guardian stuff in little bits) seems obsessed with his bowel reaction. So, enjoy it on the toilet. He's also very, very alone... And, very, very.... human. Yet, when you think he is so hard faced and cynacle, and you are enjoying a movement, he has a moment of joy and faith.
 Still very funny January 28, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The best thing about Charlie Brooker is his random decriptions of TV personalities.
Whether he is "genius" or not is debatable, but this book still rocks and the way he views television/the world is both funny and likely to cause debate.
He truly is a product of the age and his views/writing represents this. He hates the same stuff as me, but unlike me he dedicates his life to watching it. But at the end of the day my job totally sucks and he gets people reviewing his book for pleasure. I don't, so I guess his job is better than mine.
Oh, and the cover and title is an awesome reference too.
The ultimate dissection of life in modern Britain January 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was given this book for Christmas and have loved dipping into it over the last two week. Charlie Brooker analyses British life and TV like no other critic. By turns hilarious and thought provoking I would highly recommend it.
Spectacular read January 9, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
In a word - hilarious. Just bumping up the ratings for this excellent read. Consistently laugh out loud - in fact, due to the amount of involuntary bursts of laughter that this book caused, I would seriously urge potential readers not to leaf through this in public. Be warned.
Brooker's nihilistic commentaries are often shared with Screenwipe - you'll find a fair amount of material used in the shows in this book, but the rants in Dawn of the Dumb are a lot more savage and more fun. Highly recommended.
Fantastic compilation from Britain's best columnist December 29, 2007
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Unlike most of the other amazon reviewers here, I'm not going to attempt to come up with a blisteringly fantastic Brooker-esque metaphor to describe how captivatingly despicable this book is. I understand that I'll never be that clever a writer, and am in fact rubbish. This review is testemant to my miserable writing skills, which are evident in the way I just mispelled "testament". And "misspelled".
Anyway, Brooker is brilliant. Bitter, twisted and brilliant. Dawn of the Dumb is an excellent compilation of his best Guardian articles, and I was very pleased to find it under the tree this christmas. Read it during the ad breaks (to be clever), on the toilet, or when you're feeling drunk and misanthropic. Or just, you know, when you would read any other book.
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