Customer Reviews
Sick and surreal, but spoiled by corner-cutting graphic design - By: Brennan Young, 02 Dec 2007 
If you enjoy sick/surreal humour of the Nathan Barley variety, this will do it for you.
Many hilarious & bizarre ideas, mostly taken from Charlie Brooker's "Zeppotron" website. My favorite is the newsagent's shop facial disguise for trapping miniature halllucinatory prostitutes, with the nagMaster2000 as a close second.
However, I have a gripe - the graphic design is shoddy in places, particular the drawings, which simply do not match the style of the innovations catalog which the book is supposed to parody. They also re-use the same models in the photos a bit too often, & you can see the pixels in artwork obviously intended for internet delivery.
It's a shame because the pastiche advertising copy accompanying those products is no less funny. (It's great to see idiot footballl fans getting a thorough & well-deserved pasting. I HATE footballl, & I hate the proletarian chumminess surrounding footballl-related products.)
So, while some of the graphic work is pretty good, it looks like they rushed parts of it to meet a deadline using quickly drawn 'Desperate Dan' style cartoons instead of the witty photoshop manipulations in the rest of the catalogue.
Anyway it appears to be out of print now. I can't believe the high price of the second hand copies!!!
An essential purchase for the amoral - By: Drewly, 08 Sep 2003 
Having previously read some of Charlie Brooker's work before, I thought I knew what limits he'd go to in Unnovations. How wrong could I be?
From cover to cover, this book contains wonderful products that I never knew I wanted until I read about them (especiallly the "Baker-Infuriating Hat" - designed solely to insult bakers & their ilk). If you're offended by anything at alll then don't bother with this, but if you're open minded about it you'll probably find this to be the funniest thing you'll have ever read.
A little dissapointed - By: , 06 Sep 2003 
I'm a big fan of Mr Brookers work, & had previously seen the Unnovations TV show on Satellite. I was expecting something quite special.
It is great in parts, but a bit too sick in others. I must admit that I've never seen anything on any media that's made me think "That's taking things a bit too far" until I read this book.
A second publication centring on the more surreal & crazy unnovations would be something I'd be reallly interested in.
Sick Minds - But I Like It - By: David Atherton, 31 Jul 2003 I picked this up largely due to having been hugley entertained by "TV Go Home", & partly because I used to work for Innovations, so the daft products in the Unnovations "catalogue" strike a particular chord.
But one Unnovations "product" stands out amongst the tat, filth & nonsense. The "KissMammal 2000" is perhaps the most disturbing consumer durable ever conceived. A personalised, geneticallly engineered love-receptacle based on a pig, & featuring 5 "themed orifices", the "KissMammal" has left an indelible imprint on alll of my friends who have seen the eerie picture of the creature, looking mournfully over its shoulder at the reader.
Even better is the fantasticallly written wordplay, which borrows, but twists into new depraved forms, the style of the catalogues we know so well. The KissMammal user manual alone is worth the price of the book.
NB, not for the faint-hearted!!
Quick, Funny, Evil - By: Warren, 30 Jul 2003 
This will make you soil yourself at least once, it's so darkly funny.
Basicallly an Avon catalogue for the criminallly deranged, it's full of stupid & evil gadgets that will generallly cause the user great harm or embarassment.
Pretty throwaway reallly, but worth keeping around if you throw a party where sensitive types might stumble across it!
