The Internet: Now in Handy Book Form! | 
 enlarge | Author: David Mccandless
Publisher: Portico
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 180892
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1906032009
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6780207
EAN: 9781906032005
ASIN: 1906032009
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Gags galour October 28, 2007
Alexandra J. G. Parker (Cambridge)
Does everything it says on the tin. I was sceptical but the concept works, it feels like surfing the web. every page is brimming with nuggets, so there is plenty to dip back into.
This book on Amazon - oh the irony October 24, 2007
Sam Butterfield (london)
Basically a very good idea done very very well about another good idea that's been done, on the most part, really badly.
This brilliantly observed and stupidly funny book delivers the internet a juicy kick in the nuts. Quality.
Click on this pastiche October 11, 2007
Robin Benson
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the time of year when publishers put out their stocking filler illustrative humour books, usually tied to a celebrity name for better sales. Mostly they are poor efforts that end up as stockroom dust-catchers in the early months of the new year. This book I'm happy to say is way above the dross.
David McCandless and crew have really done their homework because this is a visual treat to look at. Websites are generally a mixture of photos, graphics and words in different colours and types and if you want to make fun of them you better make sure they look convincing and in this book they are really impressive. The page you are reading right now is in the book as amasszone.com, the right types, colours and layout for the book: `Notes from the Superhighway' by Bill Bison. The Guardian ends up as PreserverLimited and looking of course just like the papers site. For the ladies check out justByou.co.uk, YouTube fans click into YouFlue and everyones favourite search engine Bahoogle gets a brilliant five pages.
So it all looks like the real thing, how does it read? As classy as it looks. The word mavens have avoided the easy lads mag route (which I always thought was one of the big let downs in most illustrative humour books) and delivered some quality satirical writing.
So the thing to do is scroll up this page and click on Add to Shopping Basket and shortly you'll get some fun stuff courtesy of a few cut down trees.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
Bloody, bloody funny... October 3, 2007
James F. Robinson (Southsea, UK)
Read this and find it difficult to take any website seriously again. Let's face it, the web had it coming, the smug git, and this book gives him a hard, yet playful slap in the face. Buy it, and give social networking a rest - nobody likes you anyway.
Funny funny funny... September 24, 2007
RC (Leicester (UK))
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a laugh out loud, gaffaw a plenty style book. Absolutely hilarious - there are millions of jokes on every page. Some are so obvious you can't help but think there cannot be anymore in the book, but actually it is the one liners that really made me laugh. The detail is incredible.
The book is a spoof of the internet pages we have grown to love, loathe, hate or just become ambivalent too. Google, Apple and Amazon will suddenly never be the same after reading this book. A must for anyone that likes a good joke, or thousands.
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