Charlie Brooker
Born
in Reading, Berkshire, The United Kingdom
March 03, 1971
Website
Twitter
Genre
Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline
6 editions
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2007
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The Hell of It All
13 editions
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2008
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Screen Burn
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2 editions
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2004
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I Can Make You Hate
5 editions
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published
2012
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Inside Black Mirror
11 editions
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2018
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Unnovations
4 editions
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2002
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Black Mirror: Volume I
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Black Mirror: Volume II
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Black Mirror: Volume III
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Probation, Mental Health and Criminal Justice
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“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.
It's nothing to do with sheer numbers. Move me to a remote cottage in the Hebrides and I'd learn to despise the postman, even if he only visited once a year. I can't abide other people, with their stink and their noise and their irritating ringtones. Bill Hicks called the human race 'a virus with shoes', and if you ask me he was being unduly hard on viruses; I'd consider a career in serial killing if the pay wasn't so bad.”
― Screen Burn
It's nothing to do with sheer numbers. Move me to a remote cottage in the Hebrides and I'd learn to despise the postman, even if he only visited once a year. I can't abide other people, with their stink and their noise and their irritating ringtones. Bill Hicks called the human race 'a virus with shoes', and if you ask me he was being unduly hard on viruses; I'd consider a career in serial killing if the pay wasn't so bad.”
― Screen Burn
“Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart invention comes along. Each moan is nothing more than a little foetus of nostalgia jerking in your gut. First they said CDs were no match for vinyl. Then they said MP3s were no match for CDs. Now they say streaming music services are no match for MP3s. They’re only happy looking in the rear-view mirror.”
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“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”
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Polls
March 2018 - Sci-Fi
Black Mirror: Volume I by Charlie Brooker, 368p
Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns, 384p
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley, 180p
WE by John G.H. Dickinson, 304p
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