Book Review - Brookmyre - Quite Ugly one morning

tHeFiRsTiDioT · 11-21-2008, 08:07 AM

Hey, Would this be the place for a book review? Had written it for my facebook blog sometime back. If people like it will write some more/post some more. Do let me know.

Ashwin

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A typical hard bitten detective a la Micky Spillane, a dead ex-husband, a good looking ex-wife - is there too much more you can ask for from a typical potboiler?
But wait, this is not typical. Add a nice dose of dark humor, lesbian detectives, toilet humor and gruesome murders and you have a Jack Parlabane novel. It’s dark-funny and it has shitloads of shit, puke, turds and what not. Jack, our hero, is a good looking young journo who can get into houses at the drop of a hat and hang from his fingertips. Ah, but he has a history of people trying to kill him in LA (which self respecting journo doesn’t?) and hence makes his way back to jolly old Edinburgh.
A doc massacred (with nose bitten off and two fingers torn off in the nose - thats how gross it gets) in the house below him ends his first night hangover and he gets to work.
Not scintillating from a detection point of view, but it has its own readability - all in all maybe a 3.5/5

Sparrow · 11-21-2008, 02:59 PM

I enjoyed 'Quite Ugly One Morning', I thought it was very funny and worth at least 4/5 from me.

There's an extract on Brookmyre's site, though you may want to reformat it (contains rude language

):

http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book1.htm

together with some sample of reviews. I chuckled over:

"Huffiest comment: "Deeply unpleasant and thoroughly nasty... the novel makes for somewhat tedious and disappointing reading." Allan Laing, The Herald"

Well done Brookmyre for including the less than sparkling critiques.

tHeFiRsTiDioT · 11-25-2008, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I enjoyed 'Quite Ugly One Morning', I thought it was very funny and worth at least 4/5 from me.

There's an extract on Brookmyre's site, though you may want to reformat it (contains rude language

):

http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book1.htm

together with some sample of reviews. I chuckled over:

"Huffiest comment: "Deeply unpleasant and thoroughly nasty... the novel makes for somewhat tedious and disappointing reading." Allan Laing, The Herald"

Well done Brookmyre for including the less than sparkling critiques.

ROTFL - I am definitely going to read the second one now

11-21-2008, 08:07 AM	#1
tHeFiRsTiDioT Random Reader of Rubbish Posts: 57 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2007 Device: Dell Axim X50v, Sony PRS 505, HTC Incredible, Pocketbook IQ	Book Review - Brookmyre - Quite Ugly one morning Hey, Would this be the place for a book review? Had written it for my facebook blog sometime back. If people like it will write some more/post some more. Do let me know. Ashwin ****************** A typical hard bitten detective a la Micky Spillane, a dead ex-husband, a good looking ex-wife - is there too much more you can ask for from a typical potboiler? But wait, this is not typical. Add a nice dose of dark humor, lesbian detectives, toilet humor and gruesome murders and you have a Jack Parlabane novel. It’s dark-funny and it has shitloads of shit, puke, turds and what not. Jack, our hero, is a good looking young journo who can get into houses at the drop of a hat and hang from his fingertips. Ah, but he has a history of people trying to kill him in LA (which self respecting journo doesn’t?) and hence makes his way back to jolly old Edinburgh. A doc massacred (with nose bitten off and two fingers torn off in the nose - thats how gross it gets) in the house below him ends his first night hangover and he gets to work. Not scintillating from a detection point of view, but it has its own readability - all in all maybe a 3.5/5

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11-21-2008, 02:59 PM	#2
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	I enjoyed 'Quite Ugly One Morning', I thought it was very funny and worth at least 4/5 from me. There's an extract on Brookmyre's site, though you may want to reformat it (contains rude language ): http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book1.htm together with some sample of reviews. I chuckled over: "Huffiest comment: "Deeply unpleasant and thoroughly nasty... the novel makes for somewhat tedious and disappointing reading." Allan Laing, The Herald" Well done Brookmyre for including the less than sparkling critiques.

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