The Seven Days Of Peter Crumb
Finished On: - 25th May 2008
Peter Crumb is not a good man. The 7 days of Peter Crumb is not a good book. I am unimpressed. The whole book, its like written, of course it is, in this faux conversation (you know what i mean right?) loose memoir note taking style, that just seems to go on and on. There is no plot. But then I knew that. So did he. Its funny how you do things. Without meaning to.
Anyway, you’ll probably get the idea from the above paragraph just how frustrating a read this book is - I laboured with it mistakenly thinking there was going to be a massive twist or payoff at the end to make it all worthwhile. After all Arena magazine decided this was “the debut novel of 2007″ (presumably in the sub category “about a man called Peter Crumb written by a gobshite”). There isn’t. Miso Soup, American Psycho etc all portray the descent into mindless violence without being vulgar and attention seeking - Mr Brooks expertly dissects the relationships between people inside one head. Simply, the content covered here is presented with more style and finesse elsewhere.
At times the author uses words and violence just to provoke a reaction - the reaction it got was one of tiresome boredom.
Both of me thought this was shit, although the line about the queen gets it an extra star.
Filed by Kieran at June 3rd, 2008 under Books