- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (4 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385407076
- ISBN-13: 978-0385407076
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone. Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud, Dr Malone is cloning Jesus.
About the Author
Robert Rankin is the author of Web Site Story, Waiting for Godalming, Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls, Snuff Fiction, Apocalypso, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, Sprout Mask Replica, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, A Dog Called Demolition, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived, The Greatest Show Off Earth, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, The Book of Ultimate Truths, the Armageddon quartet (three books), and the Brentford trilogy (five books) which are all published by Corgi Books. Robert Rankin's latest novel, The Fandom of the Operator, is now available as a Doubleday hardback. For more information on Robert Rankin and his books, see his website at www.lostcarpark.com/sproutlore
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The best of Brentford Trilogy?,
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This review is from: The Brentford Chainstore Massacre (Brentford Trilogy) (Paperback)
After the amusing but slightly under whelming Sprouts of Wrath Rankin returns with the 5th (and so far final) book in the Brentford Trilogy. I’m mystified as to some of the negative comments here; as far as I’m concerned this book has it all. It starts with the best premise of any – the cloning of Jesus Christ from blood on the Turin Shroud, coupled with some of the most inspired lunacy I’ve ever read from Robert Rankin. This isn’t plot heavy, and Rankin knows just when to take his foot off the pedal and concentrate on the humour. Its got a great story, its funny as hell, and it contains some fine writing. What more could you ask for?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Oi, Rankin... get your own lines.,
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This review is from: The Brentford Chainstore Massacre (Brentford Trilogy) (Paperback)
Some years ago, in a copy of Amiga Format, I reviewed Zool from Gremlin Graphics. In one section, talking about the DIY level of the game, I mentioned that Zool was in his own Texas Chainstore massacre. I doubt Robert Rankin ever saw that review... but the line is still funnny enough. As is the rest of this book.Rankin's perennial heroes, Pooley and O'Malley return from wherever it is that they reside whilst not saving the world from imminent descruction by marauding mystical and satanic forces (for non-fans, that place is the Bar Counter of the Flying Swan pub in Brentford). This time, they wish to put right the wrongs done so long ago, when a medeival monk returning from the vatican with a papal grant of extra days for Brentford, was mugged, and had the decree stolen from him. You see, if Brentofrd gets its days back, they can legally celebrate their millenium early, and get a big grant from the millenium fund. The books as twisted as usual, implausible in a strangely plausible sort of a way. Rankin is a great genius. Read this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Decent end(?) to the trilogy,
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This review is from: The Brentford Chainstore Massacre (Brentford Trilogy) (Paperback)
If this is to be the final novel in the Brentford series of books then its a satisfatory climax. Not one of Rankins best though I think. The plot is good but never fully developed. While the need to provide a happy ending find him shoehorning in an unlikey love interest for Pooley in the final third of the book. Overall I got the impression Rankin is a little bored with his creations, and the don't spark as they have done previously.Still entertaining but not up to his highest atandards.
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