My favourite bits included such indispensible guides as: how to make a compilation tape for a friend (including the 'love tape' for your new boy/girlfriend - "No Radiohead. Unless you expect the relationship to end soon"), the guide to different types of record shops (complete with floor plans - the specialist dance outlet having an area designated for very baggy clothing and the indie shop having a "boyish smell") and how to amuse oneself when 'home alone' when your parents have gone out. If you're familiar with the TV series, then you'll know what sort of daftness to expect and the sort of things Adam and Joe are obsessed with - films and music mainly. If not, then you may or may not "get it", but as TV tie-in books go, it's a superior example and very funny.


pure brillance   April 7, 2001
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

this is an amazingly funny book, and it actually is funnier than the series. there's also sooooo much cramed into it! my favouroute section is the guide to the cinema which has basicly no faults what-so-ever to it because its so true!


Genius is Paper Form...   March 11, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

...well, that funny shiny stuff they print magaziney-type pictures on. Anyway, this book had me laughing out loud in the bookshop before I decided to buy it - it's that good. Probably appreciated best by the culture- and media-saturated under-30s, it lampoons all forms of popular culture, best appreciated by people like me who have sadly absorbed it all and mock it relentlessly. The highlights have to be the Shakespeare exam paper ("In no more than 150 words, explain why Judi Dench is supposed to be the greatest actress ever when she's only been in crappy TV sitcoms") and Vinyl Justice finding Des'ree's notebook with the (thoroughly banal) lyrics to her new song, Things: "Things, oh stuff, oh objects... Things are everywhere/On the ground and in the air..." Read and enjoy.


Funniest book ever!   January 15, 2000
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book is not to be missed by all fans of the show. It has hilarious in places and the photos are also excellent. With classic's such as- Vinyl Justice and A & J's Guide to Record Stores. Not forgetting the footie song. It also has extras, my favourites being- "You Dancin'?, You askin'?" and "bathtrauma". This will appeal to all fans of the show.


QUALITY MASTERPIECE OF THE CULT COMIC DUO   December 1, 1999
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book will amuse anyone over 12 and under 30, as well as alienating anyone between 16 & 21. In a word... Brilliant!