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 A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre
Description: ISBN 349116849 / Author: Christopher Brookmyre / Genre: Crime / Thriller / As students, Ray and Simon had dreams about what they'd do ... more  A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre ... when they grew up. In both their cases, it was be rock stars. Fifteen years later, nervous new father Ray takes refuge in online games. For Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination. His books are surrealistic, deeply irreverent and bitingly satirical. His characters may be larger than life, but are always rendered with total plausibility, however outrageous their actions. And the body count of his books is high--the world of Christopher Brookmyre's fiction is as dangerous as it is blackly comic. But is he a crime writer? A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away is another massive phantasmagoria, written with the author's customary caustic wit--and there's a character in it (a fast-living, highly successful assassin) who could have strayed in from a thriller. But such impressions never last for long--Brookmyre belongs to no genre, and this book is as uncategorisable as such previous epics as Boiling a Frog and the splendidly biting Quite Ugly One Morning.Newest Review: ... off, sending his plane careering into the North Sea. This kind of episode is common in the opening stages of the book as ... more ... various ordinary people get themselves killed while travelling. Brookmyre is hell-bent on teasing his reader, setting up believable, fully-fleshed characters who could probably carry a novel before slaughtering them after just a few pages.
Eventually, the style settles down a little. Special Branch officer Angelique Xavier learns that all these separate tragedies were masterminded by an über-terrorist called the Black Spirit.
And as soon as newly-qualified teacher Raymond Ash sees an old university friend that died f...more |
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A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away (Abacus Books) by Christopher Brook
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A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre: A Bigger Boy Came Back and Reviewed It (1057 words)
by andrewl - written on 20.03.05 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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'A big boy did it and ran away' was the first Christopher Brookmyre novel I read, a couple of years back now. It's a heady mix of international terrorism and petulant rants against popular Indie bands, set against a backdrop of computer game nerdery of the naffest order. And almost everyone in it is Scottish. Not that I've anything against the Scottish, but after reading both Trainspotting and A Clockwork Orange in the past year (not to mention giving up on Feersum Enjinn), I’m getting a bit fed up of reading books which require a degree in linguistics to understand the dialogue. And I HAVE a linguistic degree. And yet I quickly found myself ...
A solid read (293 words)
by Mr. Apollo - written on 11.02.03 (Useful, 138 readings)
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OK so one serial killer vs. an English teacher from Aberdeenshire. A really poor quality plot devised by a bored 15-year-old working his way through double Macbeth... or so you might think. In fact this is quite excellent bog reading. Some of the hit man murders are both graphic and believable. However, this is an intelligent and witty writer and he nails together what may seem to be a pretty thin plot with some genius one liners. Any fan of Brookmyre will love this. However, for the uninitiated I believe that Quite Ugly One Morning (his first work and still arguably his best) is the best to buy first. There is nothing too new here, and that is ...
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