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'A sizzlingly paced modern thriller with outbursts of thumpingly sick black humour... It is fast. It is cruel. It is comical. It is vastly entertaining, and not a little disturbing.' NME 'A funny, frightening book, full of powerful, open-hearted material and with a strong line in suspense.' TLS 'This is a black farce with bells on, or Martin Amis as slapstick... very funny and utterly unstoppable.' THE TIMES 'A tour-de-force... captures right-wing arrogance magnificently.' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A fast-moving, rip-roaring riot of a read.' CRIME TIME 'Fast and funny (as you'd expect) and devastatingly cruel.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'An energetic comedy of disasters with plenty of jokes for boys about curries and condoms and, for the girls, a scarily accurate description of a forceps delivery.' INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 'Of all the young, trendy writers of comedy thrillers, this author is my favourite. In his fast-paced tales ordinary situations run out of control and escalate into violence; the novels are compulsive, dark and sick. I love them.' THE BOOKSELLER '... he is gratuituously offensive about women, the unemployed, lefty social-worker types and anyone over 40. Remember, the best humour is never PC.' COSMOPOLITAN 'An entertaining and deeply disturbing read.' THE CRIMINOLOGIST 'A coke-fuelled, black humoured masterpiece.' MUZIK 'Given that few comic novels make you laugh at all, one that makes you laugh out loud before you got beyod the first paragraph is to be treasured. And you needn't worry that Higson has used his best gag at the start: the laughs keep coming right through the narrator's 24 hour descent into hell.' TIME OUT 'Higson has the kind of ear for middle-England angst that more established writers should be jealous of.' GQ
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A man kills a prospective buyer for his car. On the verge of becoming a name in the interior design world, he can't afford a scandal and must discreetly dispose of the body-- not an easy job when the whole of London seems to be conspiring against him.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I found it strange that other reviewers did not think this book was clever or funny. I thought it was well written, kept your interest through out, full of good ideas and best of all made me laugh all the time. I think it would make a great film too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Very black humour, I didn't find any of the characters likeable enough to care what happened to them.
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This was the fourth novel from Charles Higson, who has since found fame as writer, producer and performer on the BBC-TV comedy series THE FAST SHOW. His previous novels had set a high standard in their mixture of comedy and thrills, and the new one is no exception, although it does take off at an even more extreme tangent than its predecessors.
The unnamed hero wakes up in a bad mood, not helped by the weather forecaster getting it totally wrong once again, and so, when Mister Kitchen calls around to inspect the car he has for sale, he ends up killing him. As you do. No problem; he simply has to dispose of the body before it's discovered, and then everything will be OK again. He has a good plan, because he's done this kind of thing before, but this is just not his day, and the elements all conspire to defeat his attempts. As he battles against unsurmountable odds he merely digs himself deeper and deeper into the mire, and even consumption of the complete pharmacopoeia of drugs does not seem to help.
Higson has produced a minor classic whose scenes of drug induced frenzy stand comparison with Hunter S Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. It's also a very funny book, in the black comedy sense, although with some thought-provoking comments on ecology, evolution, religion, and the British class system. A fast-moving rip-roaring riot of a read.
The unnamed hero wakes up in a bad mood, not helped by the weather forecaster getting it totally wrong once again, and so, when Mister Kitchen calls around to inspect the car he has for sale, he ends up killing him. As you do. No problem; he simply has to dispose of the body before it's discovered, and then everything will be OK again. He has a good plan, because he's done this kind of thing before, but this is just not his day, and the elements all conspire to defeat his attempts. As he battles against unsurmountable odds he merely digs himself deeper and deeper into the mire, and even consumption of the complete pharmacopoeia of drugs does not seem to help.
Higson has produced a minor classic whose scenes of drug induced frenzy stand comparison with Hunter S Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. It's also a very funny book, in the black comedy sense, although with some thought-provoking comments on ecology, evolution, religion, and the British class system. A fast-moving rip-roaring riot of a read.
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Decent quick read
Starts off ok but kinda loses the initial gusto in the final third. That said it's fairly amusing and a decent quick read. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by Mr. R. J. Smith
Poor old Mr Kitchen
Read a lot of Higson and this one was quite amusing. Dark and slightly twisted as his books generally are but the story is good and you feel the lead characters world slipping away... Read more
Published on 20 July 2009 by M. Clark
Getting rid of mr kitchen
I loved this book,a truly gruesome romp.Black comedy with some very graphic descriptions,it is my favorite of his books and i would urge everyone to read it...
Published on 28 April 2008 by J. Pepperell
gruesome
This is black comedy at it's darkest. I was looking forward to reading this book, having very much enjoyed "Happy Now". However, I was disappointed. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2007 by Saffron
Classic Higson
This was the fourth novel from Charles Higson, who has since found fame as writer, producer and performer on the BBC-TV comedy series THE FAST SHOW. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2006 by Pitoucat
One of those days.
Have you ever seen that video for Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy? Did you think it was any good or just a bit weird? If you weren't horrified you might like this book. Read more
Published on 30 May 2003 by McVegas
Darkly humorous
This is the first Charles Higson book that I've read and it won't be my last. The humour in this particular book is very dark, as is the subject (trying to get rid of the body of a... Read more
Published on 20 April 2003
Just not funny
A real dissapointment; the book starts well, with the discussion about the weather forecast and how it can affect your day. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2003 by Nick
my first book
this was effectively the first book I read completely, from back to back, without coming up for air. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2003
Sick of books for "30-something" women
Sick of books for "30-something" women, I was looking for something a bit different to read. This is an excellent book, I LOVED it and immediately bought 2 more of his - King of... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2002
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