Who Writes This Crap

by Luke Wright

Do you despair of book blurbs that use words like 'tour de force'. 'brilliant' and 'hilarious'? Well, despair no more! In this book, Joel Stickley and Luke Wright take all the rubbish you read in an average day and rewrite it in satirical and side-splitting new ways.

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2007

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 1/2* there were funny moments but I started to get bored about 3/4 of the way through. A couple of things interested me (but probably no one else). Firstly the time left in the book (kindle) increased for sometime before decreasing... Was this deliberate (if so I am impressed)? At one stage the time left in the book was the same as a time in the text (so probably deliberate). When I got to the end the * had been linked with the relevant point in the book... I've not seen this before (but now I'll probably find it in every book). In some ways reasonably interesting.... Might be a good toilet book (I am not putting my Kindle in there though).

[Cliff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really quite funny. A 'day in the life of...' told through what is being read at the time ranging from a thinly disguised Guardian ('the Sentinel') on the morning commute to office emails about everything other than work to increasingly drunken texts in the evening. Very lightweight though - read in 24 hours between heavier stuff.

[Tamra]

Joel Stickley, the co-author of this book, has a hilarious blog that I follow called How to Write Badly Well. I'm hoping this book is as great as his blog. One can only hope.

Also, I'm hoping it was printed in the US.

[Jad · Rating 3 out of 5]

awesome book! mainly for fun :)
but it does face you with some mis-use of everyday writings that you may encounter

[✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans) · Rating 2 out of 5]

A light, entertaining read but not as funny as I expected it to be.

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A day in the life of a person (you!) cursed to read every written word in sight. A great conceit, well-executed.

[Savina King · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is an occassional laugh at the beginning of the book, but the title says it all!.

[Penny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had some jems and an interesting office e-mail dialogue, but not enough for 5 stars