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I Can Make You Hate (2012)

by Charlie Brooker(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0571295029 (ISBN13: 9780571295029)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: Charlie Brooker writes really funny newspaper columns, and I absolutely adore his NewsWipe, but somehow the columns don't make the switch to book format quite well. Maybe it's because the topics he writes about become outdated really quickly.Or maybe it's because, when you get right down to it, his grumpy rants are just sort of juvenile, and I expect more from a book. Charlie Brooker can make you hate, that is true - he can make anything sound stupid and anyone sound unbearable. But that's not really much of an achievement. If you're looking for any deeper insight, you won't find it here. Brooker's in it for the cheap laughs and that's it. Which is OK for a newspaper column, I guess, but that's pretty much it. This book is empty calories. A pleasure, but a guilty one.His f... morerequent self-deprecating reminders that he's just some chump feel like a cop out, like he doesn't really want to stand behind his words. He might as well plaster "JK! JK!" all over the book.Which is a shame, because every once in a while he gets close to something that sounds like an honest-to-God critique of contemporary media and politics (the media's apparent inability to treat anyone as anything but "celebrity", for example, was a strong observation), but before anyone notices, he goes back under the blanket of childishly calling "nyah nyah!" at everyone.Like I said, it's all part of the format, and I wouldn't expect more from a newspaper column, but I do expect more from a book. Even when it's a book of newspaper columns. It just feels a bit lazy as it is.And I can hate fine all by myself, thank you very much.
review 2: I'm not quite sure what to write for this book, I think if I had read each of the columns when they appeared in the newspapers then I may have at least enjoyed them a little. As it was the book had lots of entries that had no real context associated with it which made reading them a little frustrating. The title of the book is however, I think, quite apt in that reading it did make me hate the book a little. Charlie Brooker is very opinionated and makes no apology for expressing these views (or extreme variations of them), he also seems a little amused by the fact that he is able to rant on topic of interest to him without really having any credentials to make that possible. Overall I'm disappointed that I wasted so much time reading this book, it was one that had been chosen for a reading group I belong to however which meant I had to read it, otherwise I'd not have even picked the book up let alone started reading. less

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