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The editing (and as a result the dialogue) in this novel is atrocious. There is simply no need to repeat characters names in every spoken line in a novel - most people who read books are not idiots.
“Really Kieran?”
“Yes reader, I’m afraid its true - this novel is badly let down by the poor […]
Filed by Kieran at September 16th, 2008 under Books
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Jack Henderson wrote a book, about one of the most iconic terrorist attacks in history, and bastardised it into fiction whilst shoe-horning liberal doses of paranoia and conspiracy into a tight plot and slightly obscured attack on American foreign policy. Probably not surprising then that no publisher would touch it, even in a country that […]
Filed by Kieran at August 27th, 2008 under Books
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I was utterly taken by Altered Carbon, Morgans first Takeshi Kovacs book - his second, Broken Angels, however was not great and felt like both the character and his writer were treading water. Woken Furies is a return to form, though not necessarily in the style of the original. Its still hard and fast, descriptive […]
Filed by Kieran at August 19th, 2008 under Books
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I’ll admit that when I picked this book up I had no idea that Joe Hill was the son of someone famous, and to be honest it matters not one jot. It makes no difference whatsoever and I feel that some reviews have unfairly cast a shadow over this novel because of the size of […]
Filed by Kieran at July 25th, 2008 under Books
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Perry Groves is an Arsenal legend. He’s not the clubs greatest scorer (not even close) and didn’t manage a massive number of appearences either. However he became something of a cult figure for Arsenal due to his never give up attitude and his bizzare tin tin haircut.
This is the story of Perry’s life from […]
Filed by Kieran at July 25th, 2008 under Blog, Books, Football
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Two more steps on the experiment train journey with Mark - The Outsiders and Junky are two relatively short books that Mark lent me recently.
The postal experiment has thrown up some nice surprises. I’ve been introduced to Takeshi Kovacs and now heroin addiction and gang culture…. all of which have stimulated me and provoked my […]
Filed by Kieran at July 16th, 2008 under Blog, Books
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Started On: - 15th May 2008
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 […]
Filed by Kieran at June 3rd, 2008 under Books
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Started On: - 15th May 2008
Finished On: - 25th May 2008
There’s two things wrong with Sci Fi. Ridiculous oneupmanship permeates the genre, with each new author and each new book daring to create bigger better universes with more aliens and more technology and more fear and more intrigue and more confusion. And thats the other […]
Filed by Kieran at May 28th, 2008 under Books
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Started On: - 26th April 2008
Finished On: - 7th May 2008
This book should be amazing. Its about Zombies. Its a survival guide for the end of the world. Surely, it shouldn’t fail?!
Unfortunately it just doesn’t hit the spot. Its not funny. Its not clever. Its not even that accurate when regarding actual facts (like desert […]
Filed by Kieran at May 7th, 2008 under Books
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Started On: - 19th April 2008
Finished On: - 24th April 2008
I picked this up after reading Relentless - a book which didn’t promise much but delivered beyond expectation.
The Business Of Dying is Kernick’s first novel which is apparent from the off - not quite as polished as his later books it still revolves around his […]
Filed by Kieran at April 24th, 2008 under Books
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