Book description
Brace yourself for Frankie's novel, 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 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. 'It's
impossible to imagine any of the glut of festive titles packing in quite
so many gags as this… better than the mix of memoir and stand-up of his
debut, My Shit Life So Far.'
Chortle
'Caustic and clever…delightfully uncontained - there are no areas into
which he will not travel' The Herald
'Utterly hilarious and ferociously intelligent…he has launched a one man
Jihad against apathy and indifference and in the process has managed to
outshine most of what is published today.' Entertainment. ie Frankie
Boyle is a critically acclaimed comedian and bestselling author. His
cruel but perfectly constructed nihilistic gags have made him widely
feared and pitied.
