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The Yips (2012)

by Nicola Barker(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0007476655 (ISBN13: 9780007476657)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Fourth Estate

series

Digital Trilogy

review 1: Driven almost entirely by dialogue (and very well written dialogue at that) this is a fun read but something, I'm not sure what, was lacking and the book never really held me for long. So it took me ages to gradually pick through. There's some very funny set-pieces, and Stuart Ransom is a suitable post-millenial bogeyman, with the other main characters - Valentine in particular - well drawn and sympathetic. It all just seemed . . . a bit pointless.
review 2: I loved Darkmans so when I saw this in the library I took it out straight away. At page 50 I started to wonder what the point of this book was. Read the cover and realised that its meant to be funny. At page 100 still hadn't found a single thing even remotely humorous, got incredibly annoyed with the terrib... morele dialogue, awful characters and dull (non-existent?) plot and gave up. I hate not finishing books, even if I'm not really enjoying them but this is not worth wasting any more of my time on. less

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