Web Site Story - Robert Rankin

I have a great job in a quiet office, but it's only a great job when you've got entertainment like this! This book is the best since A Dog Called Demolition, and that was fantastic. Every single book this guy has ever written has been hilarious. I have been said to have a slightly off-centre sense of humour, so if that's you too, buy them all, but try and read them in order, as although the later books are all self-contained, a lot of the humour is in the form of running gags (Don't know why. I think it's a tradition, or an old charter or something...) While Pratchett books get more and more mundane every release, this guy's stay at the peak ...  Read the complete review

I bought my first RR book because of the recommendation from Terry Pratchett on the front cover. Both authors are incredibly funny, but with totally different styles. To me, TP comes over as very insightful, clever and witty. I think his books probably have a very wide audience. RR however seems to be something like a mad genius! You need to be a grown up to read his books - not cos of the rude bits, although there are many! - but just so that you can even begin to understand what the hell he's on about. Website Story is maybe his weirdest and most convoluted book to date. As soon as you get to grips with one bit of storyline, he turns it on it's head and ...  Read the complete review

"It was a very good day for at least three reasons. Firstly because the sun was shining, which always made for a very good day. Secondly because it was the first Monday in the month, which under the new administration, made it a bank holiday. All first Mondays in the month now being bank holidays. And thirdly, because this was Brentford, where it is always very good to be, no matter the day or the weather. The folk of Brentford were happy folk. They had always been happy folk. And, if left alone to be it, they would no doubt always be happy folk. Not that being left alone was an easy thing to be. The world that lay beyond the great ...  Read the complete review