Not smeg (Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor)

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Product:	Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor
Date:	01/07/09 (7 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Well written, hilarious and entertaining

Disadvantages: too quick to read

Red Dwarf - Infinity welcomes careful drivers

~Red what?~
Red Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for BBC Television, it was a series starring Craig Charles. They also wrote several books to go along with the series. To date there have been 9 series of Red Dwarf and the series has been very popular

~What is it about?~
Red Dwarf is a comedy about the last human alive, Dave Lister who was put into suspended animation and revived 3 million years later and his life aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf, with only a hologram of his dead crewmate, a senile computer and a creature who evolved from his cat as company.

~Infinity welcomes careful drivers~
This is the first book in the series. Lister got drunk and joined up with the space corps, but it never made it and now he is the last human alive. This book chronicles Lister's attempts to make it back home, and the strange and the surreal adventures they get into, with Rimmer the hologram, Holly the senile ships computer, and Cat...a very evolved feline.

~Is it any good?~
It is VERY funny, almost rolling around on the floor, clutching your stomach laughing funny, and the larger than life characters keep the book very entertaining, with plenty of "smeg off'" if you like that kind of thing. The writers are excellent , true genius.

~An excerpt~ From Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
"Lister had ordered his customary breakfast of prawn Bangalore phall, half rice, half chips, seven spicy poppadoms, a lager-flavoured milkshake and two Rennies. The machine had delivered a raspberry pavlova in onion gravy.
"There's something wrong with your voice recognition unit"
"Coming right up" said the dispensing machine and served two lightly grilled kippers."

~So is it for me?~

If you like comedy, then this is for you. It's funny, well written and entertaining, and then you should watch the TV show if you haven't already, if you have already then you will LOVE this book.

Summary: A brilliant book!