Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? (Vol. 2) - Hardcover

Steve Lowe has written for numerous publications including Q, BIG ISSUE and BLENDER. Alan McArthur was deputy editor of SOLIDARITY and has worked on campaigns for free education. They met at Cardiff University. This is their second book (writing, not reading).

There are perky self-help books and then theirs is IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT?, an A-Z rant about the naffness of modern life that's so relentlessly bitter it's actually rather uplifting. Dissing everything from Keane ("Tom Chaplin's face has no edges") to cardboard-tasting paninis to the overuse of Manolo Blahniks as a metaphor it's, dare we say it, more piercing than a Manolo heel MARIE CLAIRE Bilious old-codgering taken to the highest possible level as authors vent anger over the crassness and mediocrity of modern life cf. "juice drinks", Otis Ferry, Kabbalah, foot spas, Sam Taylor-Wood and pubs playing "mellow dance grooves". Excellent entry TIME OUT A life-affirming guide to the modern world ESQUIRE One of the many things that irritates these guys is rave reviews: so I'll just say it's very funny and recommend you to buy it. Unless of course you're a big fan of the Daily Mail Stewart Prebble, author of Grumpy Old Men