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Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination. Visit the author's website on www.brookmyre.co.uk
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LibraryThing member dorisdayrules
This has got to be the funniest book I've read for a very long time. Even better than Three Bags Full. Brookmyre's descriptive powers are extremely good, particularly regarding schoolboys, teachers and aspirations. As in all his books, belief will need to be suspended in respect of the plotline but
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this doesn't do the book any harm at all, rather the opposite in fact. Show Less
LibraryThing member michaeldwebb
Let's start by saying I really enjoyed this book. I'm in two minds on how to review it though. For once the cover doesn't give the story away, so I don't think I should either. And I really enjoyed the cultural references, but again I think it would be unfair to give them away, although I think
So I've not really said enough have I? I'll just add that it was superbly written, great fun and a real page turner, and Brookmyre's back catalogue is now on my reading list.
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it's fair to say if you were born around 1970 and were into music and computer games you'll really enjoy the references.So I've not really said enough have I? I'll just add that it was superbly written, great fun and a real page turner, and Brookmyre's back catalogue is now on my reading list.
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LibraryThing member mojacobs
This book disappointed me. I enjoyed the other Brookmyre's I've read a lot, but this one failed to charm me. This is an action book, but there are too many flashbacks that stop all the action and that are really annoying. The reader needs the information in the flashbacks, but having a victim who
If you want to read a really enjoyable Brookmyre, go for All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye
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has just escaped after an abduction and a mock execution thinking about his youth for some 10 pages while he is driving a stolen car and while he is supposed to have no idea of where he is, just does not ring true. And while the flashbacks are well-written enough, you can see what's coming from pages and pages away, and that does not help either. If you want to read a really enjoyable Brookmyre, go for All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye
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LibraryThing member miketroll
Brookmyre is always great light entertainment. Most of his books are set in the same grim Edinburgh milieu as Ian Rankin's Rebus. The difference is that Brookmyre plays it for laughs. I prefer that!
LibraryThing member Aubreycat
Hard to say much without spoiling the plot; but this is thoroughly satisfying on both comedy and thriller levels.
LibraryThing member soulbyte
This was the first Christopher Brookmyre book I read and I loved it. It's because of this book I started reading all his others, and i've lent them all to anyone I can force to read them - all saying again that they loved it. You have a real goodie versus baddie vibe with this one, it's pretty
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hollywood to be honest (nothing wrong with that) and I could totally see it being made into a movie. Show Less
LibraryThing member jkdavies
entertaining, especially the university settings, and Simon Darcourt's rants on SSC's. It felt very familiar in tone, with similarities to another of Brookmyre's I read recently (high school kids locked in a mountain something or other); and to Charles Stross's Halting State.
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turns of phrase really enlivened what was otherwise a pedestrian story about catching an assassin Show Less