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Ben Hatch, author of The Lawnmower Celebrity
Richard Asplin's romp through Hollywood is comic and thrilling. I whipped one page over so fast it tore.
Emlyn Rees, co-author of Come Together & Love Lives
Big cast, big characters and jokes-a-plenty, it puts Asplin straight up there with Carl Hiaason and Mr Elton
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Thriller with Jokes is the tag line. To suggest that this is in someway a hybrid of Ludlum and O'Farrell would be doing the author an injustice, because it is both the above, yet neither. You see parts of the story that are so very british that it makes you cringe, mixed with such fast paced action that you do end up shooting through the pages to see what happens next.
What you end up with are a bunch of characters that you can relate to in a TV worship kind of way. An aspiring comedian, a resolute newshound, a femme fatale, a fat balding american, the sopranos, they're all in there. The interaction is great, the gags are funny, the timing brilliant, and the story line is simple enough for you to not have to read whole sections again!
This is perfect summer reading for blokes. I'm putting his other book on my wish list today...
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...I make that an endorphin rush every thirty seconds in this cracking new comedy thriller from Richard Asplin. Having read and laughed out loud at Asplin’s last book, T-shirt and Genes, I was expecting the barrage of inventive jokes, but the addition of an elaborate and intriguing plot featuring a psycho-nerd, the mafia and a gobby scouser sidekick kept me up half the night reading ‘just one more chapter’.
If like me, you appreciate the wonderful Britishness of Mrs Slocombe’s pussy, you’ll love the story of a bewildered Englishman surrounded by irony-free (and murderous) Yanks. And if you’re a fan of American sitcom, you’ll never be able to look at Frasier or Friends in the same light again.
Funny, funny, thrilling stuff.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A riproaring escapade through the world of sitcom, Gagged is so stuffed full of larger than life characters and cleverly interweaving storylines it's like a bumper holiday edition of all your favourite comicstrips rolled into one. At nearly 600 pages a lesser talent would have lost their momentum, and their readers attention, halfway through. But not so Richard Asplin, who is not only very, very funny, he is also a sickeningly good writer whose descriptive talents and comic timing led me hurtling through this book laughing like a loon.
I am not ordinarily a reader of books like this. I steer clear of comedy for fear of not quite getting the joke, and to be honest, the cover looked a little boy-sy. If it hadn't been forced into my hand by a friendly bookseller I might still be festering away in my own little unfunny land of no laughter. Thankfully Gagged snapped me from my comedy-coma and led me to a place of sunshine and smiles. It's not overtly boy-sy. It's excruciatingly funny and well written, and whether you're a fan of comedy or just a fan of good writing, i'm sure you'll find it a pleasure to read.
Roll on the next Richard Asplin ...
I am not ordinarily a reader of books like this. I steer clear of comedy for fear of not quite getting the joke, and to be honest, the cover looked a little boy-sy. If it hadn't been forced into my hand by a friendly bookseller I might still be festering away in my own little unfunny land of no laughter. Thankfully Gagged snapped me from my comedy-coma and led me to a place of sunshine and smiles. It's not overtly boy-sy. It's excruciatingly funny and well written, and whether you're a fan of comedy or just a fan of good writing, i'm sure you'll find it a pleasure to read.
Roll on the next Richard Asplin ...
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Painfully, embarassingly awful.
I am delighted that I picked up this book from a charity shop. Not because it meant I got to read this book, but because at least that way it only cost me 2 quid; and Oxfam can... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. S. Mercer
As Funny As A 50's American Sit-Com - Horrendous
I was tempted to give completely give up the book 3 or 4 times.
The characters are drawn like stick-men - at certain points it is difficult to remember the character... Read more
The characters are drawn like stick-men - at certain points it is difficult to remember the character... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by D. R. Armour
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