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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline
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Polite, pensive, mature, reserved... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where Screen Burn left off, this work collects the best of Charlie Brooker's TV writing, together with spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects - tackling topics ranging from David Cameron to human hair.

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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline
Charlie Brooker

3 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Those who've read Brooker's articles in the Guardian and seen his TV shows will know exactly what to expect (this book is taken from his previous writings for TV). For the uninitiated, you've got a whole world of bitter, nasty, rude and hilarious rants against targets - both obvious and obscure - to enjoy. Brooker writes out loud what a lot of us only think about and no-one is safe, particularly ...

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As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred, buoying Quimby from page to page.

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Quimby the Mouse

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

Quimby the Mouse
Chris Ware

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Chris Ware has won many plaudits for his complicated, sad and funny graphic novels and has drawn fans new and old to the genre. His illustration is exquisite and sometimes frustratingly comlex. Yet, despite this there is a deftness to his graphic (short) storytelling, creating endearing portraits of loss, and poignant tales of childhood, family relationships and the barriers we put in the way of ...

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The God Delusion
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Presenting different arguments for religion, this book demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. It aims to show how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children.

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The God Delusion

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

3 out of 5 (1 agreements, disagreements)

In the current climate of religious mis-understanding, mis-trust, fear and uncertainty, Dawkins intellect shines bright as he painstakingly dissects the arguments against organised religion of all types, particularly those which set themselves against the rigours of scientific scrutiny and common sense. This is a brave and clever work of real insight and whilst many people will never be dissuaded ...

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In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man.

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Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on  Gulliver's Travels

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

This is a salient lesson to teach you not to ignore the literary classics and is not the child's fairy story many people would have you believe. It’s provocative and prescient novel first published in 1726 and its satire neatly exposes the hypocrisy and pompous edifice of scientific endeavour at the expense of real human morals, instinct and insight. The story you all know, the deeper meaning ...

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