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`The book is stuffed with funny lines and the lot is more gripping than any tyre advertisement.'
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Too many cars and not enough space equals gridlock.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as funny as I'd hoped.,
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This review is from: Gridlock (Paperback)
Although very funny in places, and tackling very important issues, this is not an amazingly well written book. Apart from glaring grammar glitches and the like, Elton sometimes gets bogged down in the (extremely important) moralizing which gives the book a somewhat disjointed feel. Perhaps more judicious editing would have been in order. The sort of book you read once and then pass on.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Seriously disappointing,
By Kristin "viking_woman" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gridlock (Paperback)
This offering was substandard to say the least. First of all Elton's attempt at preaching to his reader is artless and unsubtle. Entire paragraphs are dedicated to pointing out the abuses of the automotive industry, or how bad cars are for the environment, without any attempt to be witty or relevant to the plot. The book therefore amounts to mediocre humour interspersed with letters to the editor. Secondly, there are several Americans in the book who sound extremely British and use expressions and terms no American would ever use. Instead Elton relies on crude characterisations of American oil-company baddies with British vocab. Lastly (and I do acknowledge my own pedantry here) the book was FULL of mistakes, particularly punctuation but also grammatical. I found this extremely irritating and distracting. I wanted to take out a red pen, correct the mistakes, and send it back to the publisher with a note suggesting their editors actually make themselves useful. I am so glad this book was lent to me and that I didn't spend any money on it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A dreadful read,
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This review is from: Gridlock (Paperback)
I finished the book - only because I was stuck on a plane with little else to do.This must rank as one of the worst books I have ever read - despite Ben Elton's obvious talent. The plot is silly, the action is just not credible, the characters were one dimensional and the style was irritating. I enjoyed "First Casualty". In that book, perhaps Mr Elton moved away from the superficial to something serious, and was successful there. "Gridlock" must have been bought by a publisher as they knew that the Author's name would sell copies, whatever the quality. If he'd submitted this anonymously, it would certainly have ended up, quite correctly, in the bin.
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