- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan (5 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333908198
- ISBN-13: 978-0333908198
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,331,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...choc-a-bloc with dark humour to leave you chortling into your pillow long after you've shut the book.
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Raw, funny, edgy and uncomfortable... with plenty of gallows humour, this book could beat up anything by Tony Parsons.
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I am meant to be working but then I get lost in the haze, the dust storm, among the drugged eyes and the sunburned faces. Read the first page
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can't speak highly enough of this book - at last, someone who doesn't treat the reader like an idiot or a client or a 'follower'; a book that speaks the truth about the highs and lows of love, drugs, and the bittersweetness of life. This is a book that has characters who do nice and nasty things, senseless and loving things. So often in books characters and stories are written larger and suffer because of it but in CBP you go inside the mind of a normal person being twisted by his own fears and the expectations of the 'normal' people around him. It is endearing and brave, and for me, works wonders.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unlike so many 'Dick Lit' books these days, Charlie Big Potatoes makes you stop and think. Not content to follow a simple 'beer, booze and babes' formula, this book has something to say about the stresses and strains of the modern world - we chase only pleasure, we get only pain; at some point we must step back and look at the big picture. That's not to say it's 'worthy' or dull - it isn't. The plot moves along at speed, and there's plenty to make you laugh out loud or weep in despair. And all for less than the price of a budget cd. Mind you the author looks a bit scary on the back cover!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is fantastic - I don't often award five stars. The author has clearly dont his 'research' when in comes to drugs, paranoid freak-outs and psychiatric hospitals, but is able to keep such a dark and funny slant on the whole mess. The writing style is superb, disjointed and hard to follow through the drug fuzz, and bell-clear when Charlie's mind is sober. Charlie's thoughts are put onto the paper in such a realistic manner, written in the moment. The asides are funny, sometimes hilarious, and the innocence with which Charlie greets his mates' cynicism is painful. The journey that the reader is taken on through the book forces a certain amount of introspection - not something that would normally set off a 'Dick Lit' comedy, but it really puts the icing on the cake, brining home Charlie's struggle with addiction and mental illness. This book is fab, and gives the reader everything they want and more.
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insight and reality
insight and reality permeate throughout this expertly and genuinely written (though savagely printed) novel. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2006 by Peter True
Plodding, Boring, and Not Funny
This tepid novel with a great title attempts to look under the hood of "new-laddism" to reveal what's really going on inside this group of prosperous, drugged-up, nattily dressed... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2003 by A. Ross
great book
About Charlie, a lad-mag journalist on the verge of marriage, coping with his own expectations and those of everyone around him, as best he can. Read more
Published on 30 July 2002
brilliant debut
I laughed all the way through. Very well written, very thoughtful and worth every penny.
Published on 15 July 2002 by BabyBoris
This is more than your usual lad lit
My girlfriend bought this book and read it in one sitting, laughing and crying picked the book up after her, expecting a kind of Mike Gayle, Nick Hornby thing, but this book comes... Read more
Published on 13 July 2002
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