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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press (25 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091922933
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091922931
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,558 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is great comedy, great travel writing, and great reporting --The Times (27/09/2008)

By far the most entertaining left-wing polemicist currently operating, as well as one of the smartest and most effective --The Times (27/09/2008)

A compelling investigation --Financial Times (02/11/2008)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not all sweetness and sugar, 11 Oct 2008
By A. Webb - See all my reviews
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Reading any of Mark Thomas's books, articles, or even watching an episode of the television series that preceeded them always leaves me feeling angry, depressed and with a real frustration that I am doing little to make the world a better place. So it was with some trepidation that I finally picked up Belching Out The Devil. I was also concerned that as a conscientious consumer who already avoids Coca-Cola that the book would merely be preaching to the converted (me).

Belching Out The Devil brings you on a journey around the world, tackling the many issues that blacken the Coca-Cola brand; the infringement on workers rights, the environmental impact and drought caused by the bottling plants and the pure disregard that The Coca-Cola Company has for the communities it inhabits. It is an easy read packed with hard hitting facts, humour and pop culture references which help you connect with the author, meaning that he becomes a character in his own book rather than assuming the role of preacher. It is well researched and leaves no hole for Coca-Cola to wiggle through. At all times Coca-Cola are asked to respond to Mark Thomas's allegations and at all times his questions are greeted with frustrating PR spiel, there is a hope that if Coca-Cola learn anything from this book it would be to stop making excuses and actually commit themselves fully to the corporate social responsibility they espouse.

There is no call to action in Belching Out The Devil but it does leave you with the sensation of needing to do something, weather it be a boycott or just awareness raising amongst those you know. Some of the stories contained within are reassuring proof that it is possible for one person to make a difference.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A view into the dark side of the sweet stuff, 29 Sep 2008
By Ms. Clair E. Mcmullen (London, England) - See all my reviews
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When Mark Thomas digs his teeth into something, it's rarely a comfortable experience, but always an enlightening one. In his search for the story behind one of the world's largest brands, Mark talks to farmers whose wells have dried up, workers sacked for daring to belong to a union, and many other people who have suffered because of Coca Cola and its subsidiaries.

A well researched, well written book that should be on the top of everyone's list. Particularly if, like me, you actually quite like Coke.
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5.0 out of 5 stars problems of sugary caramel water, 3 Oct 2008
By Ms. A. Francis "Amers x" (In a box.) - See all my reviews
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Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola

The author offers a honest and unbiased account of a journey across the globe to find the truth behind coca-cola. The writing style is warm and entertaining packed with interesting facts which bring you to really question what else you could have with your whisky. Belching out the devil offers a clear and concise account of the sociological, economical and political problems coca-cola brings to communities when it sets up business. I will never drink coca-cola ever again, and I hope you wont either.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars for the author, 0 stars for the publisher
Everything you would expect from the formidable Mr. Thomas. Well researched, rational writing on the despicable treatment of anybody not part of the company by Coca-Cola... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Driscoll

1.0 out of 5 stars not the insight you are looking for
Sadly, this is a book, that is just a collection of hear-say stories that is written in a style that is not at all entertaining, informative or even insightful. Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. R. Williamson

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and weep
I read this book while on holiday in India and it made for some very interesting discussions with my husband. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rabbit Face

5.0 out of 5 stars A spoonful of medicine to help the sugar go down
Once a political stand up, Mark Thomas has taken his unusual research methodology from the arms trade to the world of "sparkling beverages" in this, his second full length book... Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Marczak

5.0 out of 5 stars We need more men Like Mark Thomas
No one else seems to have the cohones of this man, I applaud him, for both his tenacity, but also for his humor in the face of so much global misery, having recently seen his live... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. Lee

4.0 out of 5 stars An expose of globalisation, as much as a book about Coke
I've always liked Mark Thomas' brand of protest politics, investigative journalism and stand-up comedy, so I was interested to see he has taken on the mighty Coca Cola empire... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jeremy Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Bad corporation
This is an educational and and enjoyable read even though the story is about the blighted lives of people on different continents at the hands of coke. Read more
Published 8 months ago by An avid reader

3.0 out of 5 stars The dark side of Coke

Before I review, it is probably appropriate that I position myself in regard to Coke. I've grown up on the stuff, at one stage, during a hot summer day I could easily... Read more
Published 9 months ago by N. Brett

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