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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline |  | Author: Charlie Brooker
Creator: Mark Thomas
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: First In This Collection.
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0571238416
EAN: 9780571238415
ASIN: 0571238416
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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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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 Merciless, yet funny August 22, 2010
T. West (England)
This is Brooker's second accumulation of vitriol that he has saved for the exorable nonsense of modern television. His critiques of program content, formats, the undesirables who currently run television and celebrity culture are sharp-tongued eviscerations of all that is shallow and stupid, and when you're talking about British TV over the past few years, there's a lot of room for that.
He does extend his cruel humour to one or too undeserving targets, like the choice of music at the funerals of 'thick people', which I found a little callous.
The majority of this book is a hearty, if not completely healthy, antidote to everything nonsensical in public life, and when he does write about something he likes, the break in cynicism comes as pretty refreshing. You then realise that he's not as half the misery guts he tries to be, athough when his bleak and surreal humour is at its peak he reminds me of another cultural commentator and columnist, Will Self.
 Waffle August 1, 2010
G. Spence (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a fan of his tv programme I purchased this book. Half way through and other than his discription of Janet Street Porter and his comment of someone looking as smug as thought they had learnt how to fellate themselves earlier in the day there is nothing else other than waffle. It has came in useful though, as I read this when i am on the loo I have found the pages are very absorbant when I have not replenished the shelf with toilet roll.
Its of the same calibre as Clarkson's books which is a shame as both presenters can be very amusing and interesting on telly.
 giggle worthy July 23, 2010
Dems
bound to make you randomly burst into laughter as you're reading it.
charlie brooker's sense of humour is amazingly satirical, dark and witty. loved it
 boring July 14, 2010
Irvinescouse
I am a big fan of screen wipe and news wipe I was under the impression this book would be more of the same this book is full of yesterdays news comments about big brother and reality tv shows. I think Charlie is very very clever man but this book at the time of reading seemed to be about popular tv from the past (celebrity love island, big brother and so on). I was expecting more of a clarkson type book
 "He lives on a star that's dying in the night And follows in the trail, the scatter of light" June 16, 2010
Oliveman (United Kingdom)
A collection of the acerbic potty mouthed Brooker's articles from the Guardian from October 2004 to July 2007 pontificating on all sorts of subjects but mainly the offerings of the idiot box; Big Brother seems to be his specialist subject. Like other collections of this nature the standard varies from piece to piece. At times it prods a laugh out loud, at others the face exercises a wry smile. And sometimes you can only gurney at the bad taste gags. He portrays himself as a misanthrope but quite frankly it doesn't seem like he is genuinely one, pass the fog of all round grumpiness and general gripe one gets the feeling he's actually alright. Part of his charm or rather the reason he seems to get away with his startling rudeness (the similarity between QE2 and Alain de Botton's bald head in the Mediterranean sun still make me laugh when I think of it) is that he is just as rough and nasty about himself. A book to dip into every so often and relive the cultural goings on of the mid noughties.
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