Work! Consume! Die!
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Narrated by:
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Angus King
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By:
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Frankie Boyle
About this listen
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.
©2011 Frankie Boyle (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers LtdListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
‘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
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Anthony S
- 17-01-21
should've read the description first.
good book but I was expecting Frankie himself to be reading it. lazy ginger prick. 😂
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- Kris
- 27-04-16
An insight into Franky's twisted outlook......
This isn't a book filled with mock the week type gag's. Boyle delivers his outlook on the entertainment business, politics, foreign affairs and the economy. The book does digress off to
some hilarious stories and anecdotes some of which make you think if Boyle is clinically sane. Boyle doesn't narrate this audiobook but don't let that put you off as the voice actor nails it!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- T.
- 04-01-12
Superb !
Uncomfortable, line-crossing, irreverent, foul mouthed creativity at its best which is no doubt illegal in places! And Supurb!!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mike
- 16-12-11
Wow! Frankie has a soul after all - called "Angus"
I read Frankie's first book and like most people concluded I wouldn't want to live next door to him. With this book, a mix of anecdotes, diary items and flights of imagination - all interwoven - it's not always obvious moment to moment whether the stories are real or imagined. Nevertheless, after reading it, I liked the author a lot more and recognised that he is indeed far more rich - in money and mind - than some of his other works suggest. Well written in a highly accessible non-writerly way, well spoken by the narrator too, who somehow channels much of Frankie's spirit and manner without actually attempting an impersonation. An interesting book that sticks in the mind and not the craw.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Chris bailey
- 19-09-24
not read by franki boyle
this book is read out by a Scotsmen who is not frankie Boyle. it's a hard listen and it's not funny in the slightest.
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- Lee T.
- 25-03-20
terrible. couldnt finish
nothing like i was expecting. frankie boyle at his worst. didnt finish as boref witless
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Joe
- 28-01-12
Maybe Frankie should have read it.
I like Frankie Boyle, like many people I've enjoyed watching him pushing comedy to the limits of what is socially acceptable, however... there's a point at which amusing irony crosses over to the realms of acidic diatribe and that is precisely what happens with this book. Maybe Frankie's problem is that he loses the non verbal part of speech and the body language that make him funny in person.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Paul
- 21-10-12
No, no, no!
I'm a huge fan of Frankie Boyle. I just couldn't get into this. I'm keeping it as I'll keep trying. I must be missing something given some of the other reviews!
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