Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising, and the Internet

Some of the unfortunate recipients of attention in the "repurposed content" include PBS newsman Jim Lehrer, Niketown, and Slate, Microsoft's foray into the overcrowded e-zine market. Terry Colon's distinctive illustrations pepper each column, but none of the classic narrative cartoon collaborations between Colon and columnist Polly Esther are included. This omission (as well as other missing favorites) reflects the difficult task of selecting a few dozen columns from three years of daily contributions. Or perhaps the duo is simply negotiating a book deal of their own.

Suck includes hyperlinked rants as sidebars, so you can--if you wish--roughly re-create the wandering-attention-span phenomenon associated with reading Suck online. Some readers may find the collected Sucksters too clever for their own good (if you've used the term "smart alec" in a sentence recently, this may not be your cup of tea), and readers who find themselves too cool for Suck will not be impressed. Anyone who has a sense of humor, however, especially one that finds glee in the lampooning of large media conglomerations (such as the one that employs the book's authors), will enjoy the offerings of Suck.