“Ed Milliband looks like someone who’s talking while having dental surgery. His cum face must look like a widow’s vagina hitting G-force.”

Finished the first chapter of this yesterday on the train, and it had me virtually in stitches about four times, which is pretty good for the first chapter right?
Frankie Boyle needs to write more books.

oh shit, I meant to say, I totally finished this book, probably the shortest time i’ve ever managed to get through a book (like what, 14 days?) and it’s been pretty awesome. Probably the most amusing and entertaining book I’ve read in a long time.

You can pick it up for like £2.99 from The Works in paperback like seriously, i’ve paid more than that for a pint why wouldn’t you want to buy it?

I’ve order Work! Consume! Die! pretty much off the strength of the book i’ve just read to read next, but because it’s from Amazon (I refused to spend £20 in Waterstones when I can get it for half that online) it probably won’t arrive till Wednesday next week so I gotta wait :/ #firstworldproblems.

I’m now breaking into the part of his life where he starts to get into Television, he’s just been found my Jimmy Carr to appear on his first TV show.

This is still a really great book by the way, and I don’t think i’ve ever been so enthusiastic about reading it, or been so ingrossed with a book, and I know I said it before but I really enjoyed American Psycho, and this is a different kind of enjoyment, but yeah it’s pretty good.

Pretty much gonna go out and buy Frankie’s latest book as soon as i’ve finished it.

I’m sorry guys but this is probably the best book I’ve ever read!?

I don’t think i’ve ever enjoyed a book quite as much as this (except maybe American Psycho but that was a different kind of enjoyment you know?) or tittered to myself like a four year old so much before. Frankie is a great writer and I say that in all seriousness because it must have been really fucking hard to write a biography and to keep it engaging, amusing and interesting. There are moments where he goes off on a tangent but when he does you enjoy it because it’s entertaining. Some of his jokes are pretty crude so if you don’t enjoy that kind of thing (or enjoy gratuitous use of the word c… uh, that C word…) you will probably think it blows and that i’m a moron or something but uh yeah… it’s great. I genuinely look forward to getting on the train so I can read it but that could just have something to do with how mundane Catcher In The Rye was. Yeah two thumbs up from me so far and I haven’t even finished it yet.

I’ve started reading this. It’s certainly amusing, i’ve been giggling like a little schoolgirl who just… well whatever, anyway it’s really good and there’s a lot of things Frankie says that I can really empathize with (i’m not sure if that’s worrying or not…) I can’t remember the exact quote but he says he sort of distanced himself from school friends when he was younger because all he could see them doing was growing up with 9 kids, working a menial job to buy a barretts house and I was like yes I know exactly how you feel and you would too if you lived in Nuneaton and went to school at Manor Park Community School…

I finished this last night whilst on the way back from Birmingham. It’s been… okay, I haven’t enjoyed it as much as some of the other things I’ve read but it’s not a terrible book. I liked the ending? I can’t quite understand why it’s hailed as such a classic but I suppose, the way it’s written, was like revoltutionary at the time. But yeah it was okay… I’m not sure what i’m gonna read next, might give Frankie Boyle’s My Shit Life So Far a shot!

Apparently this book is a classic, so I have been lead to believe. Some people hate it, some people love it. It’s been dissected and it’s dissections have been dissected, but personally I’m finding it difficult to appreciate.
I suppose for the time it’s written it’s groundbreaking, but I can’t help but feel that it’s lacking something and it isn’t really well… going anywhere?
I’m about half way through so who knows maybe it will pick up more towards the end?
I haven’t had much time for it lately (you would have thought being unemployed I’d have all the time in the world but that’s not the case at all!) but I’m gonna try and finish it by the end of the month because I want to start something else :).

The Catcher In The Rye.
I started it en route to Paris. It’s alright, I can’t quite understand what all the fuss is about, seems a fairly ordinary book so far, but I suppose it was written in 1945 or something…

I finished this on Saturday night, I think I picked it up a total of about 4 times over the course of a few weeks but I literally read half the book all in one day because I  was that ingrossed in it.
So yeah, I thought it was pretty good. To see how Clay had developed after the events in Less Than Zero was interesting, and to see the effect that Trent and Julian had upon him as a child and how that affected him in later life was interesting. I won’t totally ruin it for you, but for me, the outcome was fairly obvious to me when I discovered what it was, although throughout the book I was constantly making connections to other characters… it was good, better than LTZ in my opinion. I think i’ll give Glamourama a go next, or possibly Pulp by Bukowski, or possibly Catcher In The Rye by Salinger which I brought last week, I haven’t decided.