Work! Consume! Die!
Written by Frankie Boyle
Narrated by Angus King
3/5
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About this audiobook
Brace yourself, Frankie’s back, and he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.
There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where’s-my-job?-sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void as taloned fingers reach up to consume you with Frankie Boyle’s new book, Work! Consume! Die!
In Work! Consume! Die! stand-up comedy's favourite pessimist, Frankie Boyle, offers his outrageous, laugh-out-loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. He describes your reality as viewed through a bloodshot eye pressed against a shit-smeared telescope, focused on hell:
- ‘Charlie Sheen’s life consists of going on huge drug benders with groups of porn stars. If he straightened himself out he could have a really mediocre career as a bit-part Hollywood actor. Playing the role of Martin Sheen’s corpse. He’s crazy like a fox! And also actually crazy. What a tragic waste, not being Charlie Sheen is. How majestic it will be for him to die, possibly quite soon, knowing that when they make a movie of his life, it will be a porno.’
- ‘The X Factor will be allowed to show product placements. That’s powerful advertising. Last series I realised that looking at the judges alone had made me subconsciously buy a gnome, a scrag-end of mutton, a vacuous mannequin and a suspected gay.’
- ‘The Taliban are running out of bullets. Operation ‘Get our troops to absorb them with their bodies’ is finally paying off. The Taliban are finding it impossible to get hold of essential supplies – at last we’re fighting on equal terms. But let’s not get complacent. Just because they’re running out of bullets we mustn’t assume our boys won’t get shot. Remember, the US troops have still got plenty.’
A no-holds-barred tour de force of comic writing, Work! Consume! Die! is Frankie Boyle at his brutal, taboo-busting best. This is nothing more or less than the clanging call to arms of a dying mechanical God.
Frankie Boyle
Frankie Boyle is a critically acclaimed comedian and bestselling author. His cruel but perfectly constructed gags on politicians, celebrities and society as a whole have cemented his name in the world of comedy.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brilliant love Frankie Boyle and his comedy have a bad day here's Frankie
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Whilst some of the material in here will be familiar to anyone who has seen Frankie Boyle on TV recently, this book is an entertaining read. The thematic chapters provide a container for a series of jokes (some of which, it has to be said, are funny), but they are linked by a more developed narrative which actually shows that Boyle could be a decent comic writer, instead of just a comic who writes books.Very light reading, apart from occasional flashes of insight - which I wish he would develop a bit more.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5You know what you're going to get and he doesn't disappoint. A few one-liners in here remind you just how good Frankie Boyle can be at his best. The few pages on Osama Bin Laden has a dozen of them. But overall, reading this book is never going to be a life affirming experience.