- Paperback: 142 pages
- Publisher: ELF (31 Aug 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0957006306
- ISBN-13: 978-0957006300
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,160,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Remember The Beano’s Numskulls? The science fiction films Fantastic Voyage and Inner Space? No? Oh well, you won’t forget Cell Wars in a hurry. And it might save your life… Brian Davis of The Poplars, Watford, has a problem. He’s been eating junk food and drinking home brew. Like everyone else on the planet, he has a team of minuscule protectors inside him, most of them devoted to keeping him well. Except that in Brian’s case, they don’t know what to do when they find a nest of cancer cells. There’s only one small hope. Send Bill, the Head of the Immigration and Foreign Object Office (IFOO) on a dangerous mission to find the answer. ‘They say nothing is truly original but this comes close’ – press-ganged businessman on a transatlantic flight ‘What’s he gone and done now?’ – Adam’s favourite aunt ‘A bit of Terry Pratchett meets Lewis Carroll. And some other funny stuff’ – dictated under duress by a book agent cornered at a literary festival
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Improve your mind or behind,
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This review is from: Cell Wars - the Battle for Brian (Paperback)
I sampled Adam Fox's, Cell Wars - The Battle for Brian, with no great expectations. Though I've read a couple of Terry Prachett's, I'm not much of fantasy fan. However, being called Brian I tend to notice when my name pops up in a new fiction title - usually for another dose of Pythonesque ridicule.Cell Wars had me hooked from the start. I had to and finish it off. The action takes place in a micro-world right under your nose - well, right up it actually. It's a world of fantastic beauty and ugliness where civil servants, demons, warriors and pub landlords duke it out daily. Most of us wouldn't expect a story about a battle between cancer cells and the good stuff to be all that funny. Well I just found out that it can be hilarious. It's also gripping, and a genuinely un-put-down-able read. It might even be life changing, or life saving. How often can you say that about a funny story? Do yourself a favour and read this book. It's a genuine treat. Even if it doesn't improve your mind, it could make your bum look a size smaller. [...]
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Inside Information,
This review is from: Cell Wars - the Battle for Brian (Paperback)
I actually read right to the end, which at first sight I had not been too sure about doing. However it turns out to be an amusing, sometimes actually funny, personification (or humanisation) of the amazing forces which we all have inside us, trying to keep us alive and healthy, which can do with all the assistance we can give them but unfortunately more often than not have to cope with the exact opposite.A novel and original way of putting this message over, well written and completely untedious, hence the 4 stars.
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Fun to read and educational too,
This review is from: Cell Wars - the Battle for Brian (Paperback)
What a brilliant idea! This short novel didn't take long to read and left me hoping for dozens of sequels a la Terry Pratchett's discworld series.The concept is one of imaginary (but very real and very funny characters) living inside a chap called Brian each with a specific duty to look after the "host's" health. These tiny creatures (angels?) all have funny quirks and don't really have to do much until something drastic goes wrong. Some terrorists have infiltrated the Host's liver and it isn't long before the dreaded cancer is discovered causing panic left, right and centre. A wonderful old fellow called Bill is sent on a mission to hook up with his counterparts in the Host's wife to see if they can find the answer together. There he encounters a completely different set of tiny folk and they indeed know what to do. This is a wonderful mix of characters, with old fashioned forties/fifties-style protectors inside Mr Host (Brian) and fairy-like Alice in Wonderland characters inside his wife (Betty). Of course there's a terrific battle scene when the hero (Bill) and his chums fight the cancer monsters. I think there's a kind of health message here as the cancer monsters don't like vitamins and proper diet, or laughter for that matter. It's all very strange but somehow strikes a chord. As an example of the humorous charm of Cell Wars, there's even a pub at Liver Central called The Singing Sphincter and some wonderfully named beers. It made me want to try a glass of Padre's Pardon!
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