Dawn of the Dumb

Polite, pensive, mature, reserved ... Charlie Brooker is none of these things. Picking up where Screen Burn left off, here he collects his next batch of unhinged short newspaper columns together. And as usual, they're full of his brand of self-deprecating vitriol and faux-anger.

While this contain lots of laugh out loud moments, in an undiluted and concentrated form it becomes a little repetitive and tedious. For example he dwells at length on trash reality programs such as Big Brother. Maybe he could have written about TV that he liked?

But there is enough spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects such as David Cameron to human hair to break up the text.

Rude, outrageous, and above all funny, Dawn of the Dumb is essential reading for anyone who has ever shouted at their TV.