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A review by millennial_dandy
Are You Dissing Me?: What Animals Really Think by Simon Winheld
3.0
3.5
Someone in a past review of this book described liking a 'palate cleanser' between more serious reads, and I think that is both an apt description of this book and a general good rule of thumb for readers.
'Are you Dissing Me' is quite obviously meant to be the book equivalent of what the kids nowadays call 'shitposting' i.e. posting deliberately provocative or off-topic comments on social media.
Many if not all of the cartoons in this book would find a home on sites like tumblr (probably especially tumblr) or shared in closed friend chats for a quick laugh react.
Most of the jokes worked on me, the clear target audience of young Millennials, so bravo to Simon Winheld for knowing his generation so well. I assume anyone older would find most of these jokes 'unfunny' and anyone younger would find most of the jokes 'cringe'.
We can all agree that the illustrations are immaculate, though.
Thanks for the sensible chuckle, Simon.
Someone in a past review of this book described liking a 'palate cleanser' between more serious reads, and I think that is both an apt description of this book and a general good rule of thumb for readers.
'Are you Dissing Me' is quite obviously meant to be the book equivalent of what the kids nowadays call 'shitposting' i.e. posting deliberately provocative or off-topic comments on social media.
Many if not all of the cartoons in this book would find a home on sites like tumblr (probably especially tumblr) or shared in closed friend chats for a quick laugh react.
Most of the jokes worked on me, the clear target audience of young Millennials, so bravo to Simon Winheld for knowing his generation so well. I assume anyone older would find most of these jokes 'unfunny' and anyone younger would find most of the jokes 'cringe'.
We can all agree that the illustrations are immaculate, though.
Thanks for the sensible chuckle, Simon.