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`absolutely brilliant. Witty, blunt, brutally honest...prose is brilliant'
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‘A sharp, funny, exquisitely well written novel.’
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King's dry wit and dark humor is at it's best in the form of Jim, the ghost giraffe. Very easy to read, full of fun and good for someone who doesn't want something heavy.
The book however sort of dips in the middle, and the story trails off into a land of fog, although I'd recommend to stick with it. I would happily read this book again, maybe after a bad day at work.
Not recommended for someone that wouldn't enjoy a dirty-minded giraffe. It is rather silly and the plot isn't exactly solid, but the stuff that Jim comes out with, PRICELESS.
The book however sort of dips in the middle, and the story trails off into a land of fog, although I'd recommend to stick with it. I would happily read this book again, maybe after a bad day at work.
Not recommended for someone that wouldn't enjoy a dirty-minded giraffe. It is rather silly and the plot isn't exactly solid, but the stuff that Jim comes out with, PRICELESS.
Scott Spectrum is being haunted, not by your typical spooky ghost but by the ghost of a giraffe called Jim who has come to save him from a fatal heart attack and early death. Jim points out the weaknesses and loop holes in Scott's life, from his unfulfilled and unsatisfied wife, to his personality faults. He is a dirty minded giraffe who says what most people think but wouldn't say. However are Jim's motives as genuine as they seem... well for a ghost giraffe anyway?
I thought the first half of the book was absolutely brilliant. Witty, blunt, brutally honest and looked at things we have all thought or experienced but would never in a million years talk about. It's incredibly surreal, I like books that have a surreal twist yet sometimes it can go too far and veer off to no mans land and sadly this book did just that. I managed to believe in ghost giraffes, well why shouldn't there be such a thing if we have human ghosts. All of a sudden though, I can't pin point where without giving everything away, I just thought `no' and what had been a book I was racing though suddenly felt like racing through mud. The characters became too much, the dirtily funny became a bit obscene and I lost interest.
I would bizarrely read another Daren King book though. I think his imagination and visions though weird are also wonderful. I think his prose is brilliant if slightly stark and sweary perhaps and I thought his characters were really interesting which is what you want from a book, well an author maybe as this book isn't quite the right example.
I thought the first half of the book was absolutely brilliant. Witty, blunt, brutally honest and looked at things we have all thought or experienced but would never in a million years talk about. It's incredibly surreal, I like books that have a surreal twist yet sometimes it can go too far and veer off to no mans land and sadly this book did just that. I managed to believe in ghost giraffes, well why shouldn't there be such a thing if we have human ghosts. All of a sudden though, I can't pin point where without giving everything away, I just thought `no' and what had been a book I was racing though suddenly felt like racing through mud. The characters became too much, the dirtily funny became a bit obscene and I lost interest.
I would bizarrely read another Daren King book though. I think his imagination and visions though weird are also wonderful. I think his prose is brilliant if slightly stark and sweary perhaps and I thought his characters were really interesting which is what you want from a book, well an author maybe as this book isn't quite the right example.
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The premise of a ghost giraffe offering advice to a sexually repressed man may at first appear intriguing and may want want you to investigate further. Sadly the author doesn't possess the wit or writing skill to do anything with it. I gave up on the book about half way in - it was going absolutely nowhere, being tedious and full of puerile quips and supposed jokes. It reminded me of something a student might write for a college magazine - it's that dire. I saw one review that compared it to Kafka which is absolutely laughable. How this tosh sees the light of day puzzles me.
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