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hamwhig's review against another edition
4.0
Bought this book because I didn’t like to see Piers Morgan cancelled. An alright book, agreed with his opinions on cancel culture (that it should stop) and free speech (that there should be more of it). Most other opinions he has in the book I didn’t really agree with, I don’t think the book will age well either. It was well written and put together though.
hollymcdd_x's review
4.0
Firstly, I DO NOT agree with everything that comes out of Piers Morgan’s mouth - like most of us, I think he is very big-headed, aggressive and a complete idiot at the best of times. However, I wanted to try this book and found the concept quite interesting.
Controversial read? Yes.
Did I agree with everything he said? No.
Did I enjoy reading it? Yes.
Controversial read? Yes.
Did I agree with everything he said? No.
Did I enjoy reading it? Yes.
jjanetbb's review
4.0
4.25/5 stars
I never thought that I'd be praising Piers Morgan, but here we are. This book offers a perspective on cancel culture and today's liberalism which is critical. This is a must read.
I never thought that I'd be praising Piers Morgan, but here we are. This book offers a perspective on cancel culture and today's liberalism which is critical. This is a must read.
melinky's review
4.0
Summer read cont.d
Wake Up- Piers Morgan
I’m not necessarily a fan of Piers Morgan, but if you only ever read or listen to the views that you agree with then you only serve to reinforce your own ideas I guess and could arguably be accused of not being open/ available to others opinions and experiences. To have a reasonable argument you need to be able to listen and try to understand all viewpoints. And with the mindset that everyone is interesting and that even a broken clock is correct twice a day I read it.
It’s Piers ‘journal’ between the months of January and July 2020 covering the major global events (I’m sure you can recall) with his vociferous opinions being ‘ranted at you’ (that is how I read it with his ranting voice in my ear) on all subjects available around Meghan, BLM, wokism, Covid, Boris and many many more….. written of course from his own concrete opinion.
He is contentious. He is as we all know very opinionated. He has very decisive/ derisive views on various subjects but I found myself occasionally laughing, disagreeing a lot, nodding in agreement (sometimes), learning, googling to see if he was correct about facts, insulted, disliking him and on the whole informed about his opinions- (to be fair all books are one way information but with Piers it feels even more so). It wasn’t wasted hours reading his book, I don’t resent the time I spent reading it. But I appreciate its not for all.
Wake Up- Piers Morgan
I’m not necessarily a fan of Piers Morgan, but if you only ever read or listen to the views that you agree with then you only serve to reinforce your own ideas I guess and could arguably be accused of not being open/ available to others opinions and experiences. To have a reasonable argument you need to be able to listen and try to understand all viewpoints. And with the mindset that everyone is interesting and that even a broken clock is correct twice a day I read it.
It’s Piers ‘journal’ between the months of January and July 2020 covering the major global events (I’m sure you can recall) with his vociferous opinions being ‘ranted at you’ (that is how I read it with his ranting voice in my ear) on all subjects available around Meghan, BLM, wokism, Covid, Boris and many many more….. written of course from his own concrete opinion.
He is contentious. He is as we all know very opinionated. He has very decisive/ derisive views on various subjects but I found myself occasionally laughing, disagreeing a lot, nodding in agreement (sometimes), learning, googling to see if he was correct about facts, insulted, disliking him and on the whole informed about his opinions- (to be fair all books are one way information but with Piers it feels even more so). It wasn’t wasted hours reading his book, I don’t resent the time I spent reading it. But I appreciate its not for all.
oneeasyreader's review against another edition
1.0
Heavy is the head that bears the burden of being called a twat on Twitter.
Wake Up is a lesson about a barking dog. Maybe he’ll bark at the burglars. Maybe he’ll bark at passing cars. When do you say “Good boy”?
Passing Cars
There is a group of people who are woke. Woke people do things that Morgan does not like.
This makes them objectively bad.
Sometimes these illiberal liberals tell Morgan to shut up.
This is also objectively bad, perhaps even as bad as publishing falsified pictures of British soldiers committing warcrimes.
I question the value in debating Morgan about trans people in sports, or vegan sausages, or whatever point he’s making when he writes that James Bond will remain a man. Is it right to post “RIP feminism” every time a model posts nudes? Probably not the first line I’d go for but hey, I’m not going to argue with a guy charming enough to let his colleagues know when they sexually arouse him:
“They’re certainly sustaining me”.
Quite
Delving into each of his points is to be a dog on the other side of the road barking back. If you are an expert on the issues he deems noteworthy, go for it. But don’t feel compelled to debate him on the ground of his choosing. In either case, there can be no true victory against someone with his platform, instead he’ll take his ball home and moan about a vicious mob intent on ‘cancelling’ anyone on Twitter… at length.
The point (made often) is that Morgan is intellectually lazy. He sees something pass before his eyes and instinctually reacts. He barks. The things he does not see do not exist. Causes for a liberal like Morgan such as the imposition of Gender Recognition Certificates or the ethics of journalists filming immigrants bailing water from dinghies are apparently not worth mentioning. Causes such as whether darkening the colour of the Wombles makes them more ‘relatable’ apparently are.
Burglars
Morgan lets us know, at length, what a good job he did with holding the government to account over COVID-19 along with supporting immigrant front line workers and a scintilla of empathy for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Congrats to Morgan for using his gigantic platform to do the bare minimum. Nice of him to then immediately turn those crises as tools to vaguely bash at the wokery, also known as a new form of fascism. Major events are no more than interlude that do not materially change his views.
My point is that Morgan should not get much, if any credit, for occasionally appearing to be a helpful character. Nothing about his processes for making the “good” decisions are any better than when he decides that the main societal problem with rape cases is where their female accusers had lied. Morgan is the constantly barking dog, who could turn on you after the next ad break. Coincidental convergences do not an ally make.
Sometimes you have to send those types of dogs to a farm upstate.
Wake Up is a lesson about a barking dog. Maybe he’ll bark at the burglars. Maybe he’ll bark at passing cars. When do you say “Good boy”?
Passing Cars
There is a group of people who are woke. Woke people do things that Morgan does not like.
This makes them objectively bad.
Sometimes these illiberal liberals tell Morgan to shut up.
This is also objectively bad, perhaps even as bad as publishing falsified pictures of British soldiers committing warcrimes.
I question the value in debating Morgan about trans people in sports, or vegan sausages, or whatever point he’s making when he writes that James Bond will remain a man. Is it right to post “RIP feminism” every time a model posts nudes? Probably not the first line I’d go for but hey, I’m not going to argue with a guy charming enough to let his colleagues know when they sexually arouse him:
“They’re certainly sustaining me”.
Quite
Delving into each of his points is to be a dog on the other side of the road barking back. If you are an expert on the issues he deems noteworthy, go for it. But don’t feel compelled to debate him on the ground of his choosing. In either case, there can be no true victory against someone with his platform, instead he’ll take his ball home and moan about a vicious mob intent on ‘cancelling’ anyone on Twitter… at length.
The point (made often) is that Morgan is intellectually lazy. He sees something pass before his eyes and instinctually reacts. He barks. The things he does not see do not exist. Causes for a liberal like Morgan such as the imposition of Gender Recognition Certificates or the ethics of journalists filming immigrants bailing water from dinghies are apparently not worth mentioning. Causes such as whether darkening the colour of the Wombles makes them more ‘relatable’ apparently are.
Burglars
Morgan lets us know, at length, what a good job he did with holding the government to account over COVID-19 along with supporting immigrant front line workers and a scintilla of empathy for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Congrats to Morgan for using his gigantic platform to do the bare minimum. Nice of him to then immediately turn those crises as tools to vaguely bash at the wokery, also known as a new form of fascism. Major events are no more than interlude that do not materially change his views.
My point is that Morgan should not get much, if any credit, for occasionally appearing to be a helpful character. Nothing about his processes for making the “good” decisions are any better than when he decides that the main societal problem with rape cases is where their female accusers had lied. Morgan is the constantly barking dog, who could turn on you after the next ad break. Coincidental convergences do not an ally make.
Sometimes you have to send those types of dogs to a farm upstate.
rahuldeodhar's review
3.0
One of the important lessons from this book is that life is full of nuance. Any extreme position, left or right, is soon enough exposed as ridiculous.
Wish Morgan elaborated and examined critically his opinions. The narrative style means he fleets from issue to issue voicing his views on various topics in the context of the developments taking place.
Definitely read once.
Wish Morgan elaborated and examined critically his opinions. The narrative style means he fleets from issue to issue voicing his views on various topics in the context of the developments taking place.
Definitely read once.
dcm7918's review
Had to return to library. When I borrowed again, could not remember where I left off, so did not begin again.
kerry2727's review
4.0
An interesting one...I absolutely don't agree with everything he says, but he does talk a lot of sense and in his words 'the world has gone nuts!'
paulsnelling's review
1.0
This is a bit of a pup. I bought it because I thought it was going to be a sustained analysis but in fact it’s just a diary which stops mid-month presumably to meet the production schedules wishing to capitalise as his notoriety transformed itself into the self-appointed holder of the government to account. The current so-called culture wars are certainly in need of critical examination and discussion, but you won’t find much of that in this repetitive book. Basically it’s a tabloid ranty-editorial stretched to 330 pages. There’s apparently some recognition about how he has moved on from sniping about Meghan Markle so it’s a little ironic to be reading this (mercifully swiftly) in the week since the tantrum (his not hers). I find myself agreeing with him on some issues, but that’s not because there’s a persuasive argument, which I understand to be a reasons and logical movement towards a conclusion. Here, there’s just very shouty appeals to self-evidence, which is basically what he accuses his opponents of. He moans about lack of nuance but paints in heavy strokes with the broadest brush. He complains about public shaming but says in claiming credit for a government reverse of NHS car parking charges that, ‘sometimes you just have to publicly shame people into doing the right thing’. That’s not the only thing that he takes credit for, by the way, there’s Captain Tom’s knighthood amongst others in a volume which despite occasional claims to the contrary, oozes with self regard, making laughable his baiting of celebrity narcissists. Piers Morgan is certainly a product of the times, and I’m sure that this book will sell very well because it is confrontational and superficial. That’s one of our problems, and this book is much more likely to contribute to it than challenge it. Worth a read though. It won't take long.