Fridge Magnets Are Bastards
By (Author) Mark Dapin
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
1st October 2007
Australia
General
Non Fiction
A828
Paperback
274
Width 136mm, Height 208mm, Spine 20mm
320g
Mad at the modern world Meet Mark Dapin ... your new best friend
Modern life: advertorials, obscenely cheerful breakfast tV hosts, celebrity chefs, call centres, smiling charity collectors. Brands, highly effective people, misuses of the word 'creative'. Performance reviews, people who say 'I'm not racist, but ... ', sushi bars and the taliban. Alexander Downer. Water-cooler moments. Yellow stickers. Fridge magnets. Mark Dapin can complain - and does - about almost everything. In Fridge Magnets are Bastards, he's tried to contain his rants about the things that annoy him to a list of 141 - in alphabetical order. Why Just to be irritating. A book for anyone who's ever gnashed their teeth over contemporary stupidity. 'CYNICAL,ILL-tEMPERED AND NEEDLESSLY AGGRESSIVE. I tHOROUGHLY ENJOYED It.' JACK MARX 'ELEGANt, WELL CONSIDERED ABUSE IS A LOSt ARt IN tHE AGE OF tHE E-MAIL. HERE, MARK DAPIN REVIVES tHAt ARt tRIUMPHANtLY, HILARIOUSLY ...' MIKE CARLtON
Mark Dapin is the author of Sex & Money, a memoir of the time he spent working on men's magazines. He is a feature writer and fortnightly columnist for Good Weekend magazine and claims to be one of only two people in the world to have worked for both Ralph and The Australian Financial Review. Born in the UK, Mark moved to Australia in 1989. Apart from a couple of years in the print industry, he has been a journalist all his working life. Before that, he was a hopeless failure.