It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture

by Mark Simpson

Book Overview

In this hilariously perverse collection of essays, celebrated British writer and satirists Mark Simpson takes a warped look at a fin de siecle world of pop culture where nothing is as straight -- or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560239506
• ISBN13: 9781560239505
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Laughed out loud....

You can't help but laugh...not at us but near us.It really is as good as people are saying. But even better, you will see the world with a slightly twisted perspective afterwords...it really is a fun book.

"AN ACERBIC DELIGHT FROM COVER TO COVER"

'BAY WINDOWS' WROTE: "Simply put, IT'S QUEER WORLD is an acerbic delight from cover to cover.... Simpson excels at casting a cynical gaze over British and American pop culture with hilarious results. To his way of thinking, we're all in the same boat, and guess what - it's leaking! Bitchy yet pithy is a rare combination to pull off, but Mark Simpson has it in buckets."

THE QUEER MONTY PYTHON

Is there something they put in the water over there in England? How do those Brits manage to be so funny? This Simpson guy has to be one of the funniest Brits to hit these shores. My boyfriend thought I'd lost it when I was reading this - he had to go into the other room. Really inspired stuff - some of it was a bit more stretching intellectually than I bargained for, but I sort of liked that too.

I DEFY YOU NOT TO LAUGH

Just a total blast. I read the rave reviews before I bought it a bit sceptically and thought, `so, impress me.' And, boy, did he! I laughed out loud like a drain so many times and so noisily my roommate thought I was losing it. Then I leant him this book and pretty soon he was hysterical too. So many great moments it's difficult to pick out a favourite. So here's a few: A groom being buggered by lesbian strippers on his Stag night; a disastrous visit to a female prostitute in London's red light district; a surreal discussion about the cultural significance of foreskins with Monty Python worshipping US Marines in Tijuana; an exclusive interview with Oscar Wilde in which he `goes in'; and Simpson's own `George Michael' moment with a cute cop from the Beverly Hills PD. The funniest, sharpest book I've read in years. I defy you not to laugh.

Don't read it in public.

This is, simply put, the wittiest work of gay non-fiction ever published. Simpson may be the smartest gay essayist of our time. There's no question that he's the funniest.