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Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas

 
Description: ISBN 0340767820 / Author: Scarlett Thomas / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Six young people respond to the advert in The Times asking for ... more
Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas ... bright young things for a project - all clever, all disaffected with their lives, all looking for an escape. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on an island. Their needs are well provided for with a comfortable house and provisions but there's no telephone, no television and no way to escape.

Newest Review: ... are sitting in the waiting room, and the next they are waking up on a deserted island. But how did they get there? Confused ... more

 ... and groggy the six youngsters decide that as long as there's a house to stay in, food in the fridge, and a place to sleep, they aren't going to worry about how they got there or why they are there. After all it will just be like one big vacation right? *** My Overall opinion of the Book *** Displying itself in a fantastically bright, eye catching cover, Bright Young Things definitely stands out from other books on the shelf. That was in fact, the main reason why i bought the book; it looked fun. But what was ...more

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Brown_eyes1984
Premium Review Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas: When books turn bad (662 words)
by - written on 25/08/04 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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***About the Author *** Name: Scarlett Thomas Born in the year: 1972 Born in : London Scarlett has been included in the top 20 female writers in the year 2001.She has also won an Elle Style Award for her novel 'Going Out'. When she was younger she spent a lot of time demonstrating against things such as Poll Tax and the first Gulf War. *** Bright Young Things *** When the 'Media Guardian' prints a mysterious job advertisement stating 'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project', six twenty-somethings decide that they could do with a new challenge. Their lives are going nowhere; they're either ...  Read the complete review

Daisybelle
Crowned Review Want something to make you smile? (1209 words)
by - written on 15/08/01 (Very useful, 149 readings)
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Stumbling on this little beauty of a book was really a stroke of serendipity. Serendipity is happy chance, for anyone that didn’t know. An old letch I used to work with, who was of a literary bent, explained to me that his earliest taste of serendipity was shinning up a lamppost as a boy and having a surprise first orgasm. A likely tale, but it illustrates serendipity amusingly well. I wonder if he fell off – never thought to ask at the time. Anyway, I was darting around the library in a flummox, when I saw a large paperback book with a bright blue cover and big yellow, red and blue words on it. So I grabbed it and fled. Had I taken time to look at ...  Read the complete review

 

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