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    21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)
    21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)
    21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)
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    21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)

    Written by Steve Stack

    Narrated by Steve Stack

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    A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.

    We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.

    Until now, that is.

    Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction.

    Some of them have vanished already.

    Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo…

    …all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateSep 29, 2011
    ISBN9780007451104
    Author

    Steve Stack

    Steve Stack is a writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the Observer, Times, Private Eye and many other publications. He is generally thought to be quite a nice guy.

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    • 2/5
      I might be a bit below the target age for this one -- I remember some of these things, like cassettes and candy cigarettes and Jif, but other stuff was on its way out before I got there. I'm about to turn twenty-five, so I'd guess I'm about ten years behind some of this nostalgia stuff.It's not a very substantial book, but if you feel like a bit of nostalgia and an opportunity to go 'I thought I was the only one who remembered that!', then this might be for you.Some of it hasn't yet gone the way of the dodo for me: my parents get milk delivered, and I remember watching the milk float arrive on those illicit late nights I stayed up reading, sometimes. Okay, the first time it actually really freaked me out. But still. Milk float.
    • 3/5
      A British-skewed humour book that could probably be enjoyed by other people too, at least in part. It's a compendium of objects and concepts on the verge of going extinct (or already long gone) in our modern life: mix tapes, dial telephones, milkmen, Opal Fruits, half-day closing, 10p mixed bags of sweets, chocolate cigars, Smash Hits magazine, Woolworths... Things I don't remember at all, things I must have only ever come into contact with as a tiny child, perhaps at my grandparents', and things that lasted all the way into my early teens and beyond and now wear the rosy halo of nostalgia for me too. Lovely.
    • 4/5
      a fun read for sure.
      makes me feel like a dodo myself, since I remember almost all of the items described in this book. It's a fun ride along nostalgia lane, where you feel a little twinge of sadness for things gone by the wayside, a chuckle at the funny way they are explained, and then a sigh of relief that some of them have gone the way of the dodo bird.
    • 5/5
      As many others have said on here, it was a really good nostalgic read for 'people of a certain age'. So many times I was reading it thinking "omg I remember those" or " I used to do that all the time". made me giggle a lot.
    • 3/5
      If you remember sliding your home made mix cassette tape, recorded in silence from the Radio Top 40, into your Walkman and strapping your calculator watch to your wrist before disappearing to play unsupervised in the local park until dinner time, then the nostalgic appeal 21st Century Dodos will be a source of nostalgic appeal.Subtitled “A collection of endangered objects (and other stuff)” this is a light and humourous tribute to the end of an era. At just forty it seems almost obscene that so much of my childhood is now obsolete – rotary phones, Polaroid cameras, 10c mixed lolly bags (Cobbers were my favourite), school blackboards and roller skates but I enjoyed the reminder of these simple pleasures, and treasures.It might hearten Steve Stack to know Australia still has Woolworths stores and my boys are currently participating in Bob-a-Job week (though I go door to door with them). Not having grown up in England however there are a lot of things mentioned in the book that I’m unfamiliar with, retailers, television shows and product brands among them.21st Century Dodos is a fun read, for anyone over about 35 I would think, but as it is heavily skewed towards British culture it is to those readers that grew up in England during the 1970/1980′s that I would recommend this book.