Product Description

Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns in one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother, Trinny and Susannah, Casualty, Davina McCall, Michael Parkinson...and almost everything else on television. This book will make practically anyone laugh out loud.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #496 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Charlie Brooker has worked as a writer, journalist, cartoonist, TV and radio presenter. He created TV Go Home, a hugely successful comedy website that was turned into a book and a TV series. His TV writing credits include the 11 O'Clock Show, Brasseye Special, TV Go Home, Unnovations, and The Art Show. He has a weekly TV column in the Guardian and is currently writing a new Channel 4 series with Chris Morris.

Customer Reviews

Dated but still good.
I like Charlie Brooker. Charlie Brooker is a very funny man and his column in the Guardian is very funny too. Unfortunately if you can't remember most of the T.V. programmes he turns his ire on, then you're likely to be a bit lost as to why they deserve his anger. Revel in his caustic wit anyway as some deserved bile is poured out over victims, who, for the most part are the most venal, vain, shallow and self-centred people in or on television.

A good loo book, its short entries a perfect for a 'visit'. Not so good to read cover to cover, which I did because mine was a library copy and I needed to return it. Best buy or get bought a copy and leave it within handy reach of the porcelain.

Funniest book I have read for a while
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
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.