What Just Happened?!

Dispatches from Turbulent Times

De: Marina Hyde

Narrado por: Colleen Prendergast, Marina Hyde

Duración: 16 h y 53 m

Resumen del Editor

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era.

No other writer is more suited to chronicling the absurd times in which we live.
In What Just Happened?! Marina Hyde slashes her way through the hellscape of post-referendum politics, where the chaos never stops. Clamber aboard as we relive every inspirational moment of magic, from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson. Marvel at the sights, from Trumpian WTF-ery to celebrity twattery. And boggle at the cast of characters: Hollywood sex offenders, populists, sporting heroes (and villains), dastardly dukes, media barons, movie stars, reality TV monsters, billionaires, police officers, various princes and princesses, wicked advisers, philanthropists, fauxlanthropists, telly chefs, and (naturally) Gwyneth Paltrow. It's the full state banquet of crazy - and you're most cordially invited.
Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, What Just Happened?! is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction.

©2022 Marina Hyde (P)2022 Guardian Faber Publishing

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time." (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)

"A joyous rallying voice in British journalism." (Grayson Perry)

"It's a scientific FACT: Marina Hyde is Britain's funniest writer." (Caitlin Moran)

The best

I don’t live in the UK but turned to their news and podcasts to hear about someone else’s terrible politics. I don’t know who some of these people even are but Marina’s takes are so great it doesn’t matter. Thank you for reminding us that there is looniness everywhere. Highly recommend.

Lots of fun!

Great highly refined vitriol. it has been a great pleasure and a lot of fun. Stellar performance by the narrator too.

Super writing

I have read many of these columns in the grauniiad newspaper but having them collected and read was worthwhile. The writing is brilliant and there is the added bonus of an in depth interview with Marina at the end of the book

100% Negativity (great, if that's your shtick)

Ok, it's witty in its way. But, in the end, this tome is highly depressing in its negativity towards just about everything Hyde cares to turn her jaundiced gaze upon. Nothing, no one, pleases her, nor seems to give her a jot of pleasure - apart from her own manufactured style of wit and clever-clever turns of phrase. She clearly has a high opinion of herself and judges everyone else without a morsel of the milk of human kindness. As she slams everyone and everything in article after article (their tone becoming tediously similar after about a third have been heard), a listener might wonder how does everyday life in Britain manage to stagger on without complete collapse. Does Hyde offer a single suggestion to help the patient recover from its obvious death throes? No, only bile, spite and bitterness. However, I disagree with other reviewers about the reader: Prendergast does fair justice to Hyde's hysterical outpourings. (Addendum: I suffered Hyde's miserable acidity until I reached the halfway point, hoping against hope I might hear at least one kind word about someone, no matter who. No luck! I gave up and sent the tome back under Audible's generous 'return' policy. I can feel my joyousness increasing by the minute.)