- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: PULP Faction (13 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1901072134
- ISBN-13: 978-1901072136
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,297,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in the real and virtual campus, Read Me is an online whodunnit showing that despite the priveleged lifestyle of today''s students, paranoia is an ever present part of their mental picture.'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Read,
By A Customer
This review is from: College.com (Paperback)
This is a great novel. It's not just a thriller: it's also really laugh-out-loud funny. Definitely something to dig your teeth into on a wet and windy afternoon. Jon Buscall is a talent to watch! I can't wait for his next book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
interesting but quite derivative,
By A Customer
This review is from: College.com (Paperback)
College.com is a dark and at times laugh outloud funny depiction of a bunch of first years at UEA. The end in particular is fascinating and Buscall clearly makes some interesting points. Having said that I have a major problem with this novel and that is that for all its irony and entertainment it pretty much reads like a straight rip off of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction - from the ambivalent characters through to the deliberatly obscure ending and even the actual device for the telling the tale and the deadpan style of the different narrators. The publishers namecheck Copeland presumably because of the homages to him which litter the book but its clearly Ellis who is the major influence. Now it may be that this echo of The Rules of Attraction was intentional - after all there are references to Less Than Zero and American Pyscho in the book - but the problem is that its one thing to attempt to reset a novel in other time and place and quite another to simply create that novel's almost mirror image. Overall then I would recommend this book but I think those who haven't read Easton Ellis might, ironically enough, enjoy it more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Depressing but true,
By A Customer
This review is from: College.com (Paperback)
The cover blurb sets this book up as a whodunnit. But when I got to the end I was utterly clueless about who exactly had, in fact, dunn it.I immediately emailed the author and very rudely demanded an explanation. To my eternal shame he wrote back straight away without showing any of the contempt I richly deserved. He pointed out that I was being a bit thick, that the point of the rapist wasn't far off what the review at the bottom of this page says, and that unless you'd read the book in a deep coma you really should have figured it out. OWTTE. But overlooking this complete lack of comprehension on my part, I thought that the behaviour of the other characters -- though all too real -- was a bit depressing. They stumble from one disaster to another, with only themselves to blame. In fact, in his reply the author himself called them all 'wankers'. In summary: a dark but interesting read.
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