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Magnificent Bastards (Paperback)

by Rich Hall (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus (2 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349119651
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349119656
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,254 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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For I BLAME SOCIETY: 'Written with a cool eye and a warm heart, Hall's book is terrific comedy, and much more' SUNDAY TIMES 'An entertaining read, full of tall tales from the dark corner of the trailer park' THE TIMES For THINGS SNOWBALL: 'Highly entertaining ... poised somewhere between the classic prose efforts of Woody Allen and the more measured eye of David Sedaris' INDEPENDENT * 'Wise, witty and strangely true' GUARDIAN For Things Snowball - * 'Very funny, considering he isn't meant to be in the country' JACK DEE* 'Priceless ... you guessed it: I laughed out loud' SCOTSMAN


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Comic genius Rich Hall introduces a series of magnificent bastards and lost souls in this hilarious collection of tall tales. Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a frustrated werewolf who roams the streets of Soho getting mistaken for Brian Blessed; a smug carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a house party; the author of a business book entitled Highly Successful Secrets to Standing on a Corner Holding Up a Golf Sale Sign and a man whose attempts to teach softball to a group of indolent British advertising executives sparks an international crisis.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a triumph for the Tennessee Londoner, 10 Aug 2009
Superb stuff. Each chapter a real rib tickler; whether the setting is Route 66 or Tottenham Court Rd Rich is compulsively funny. He is no less than a master of comic invention and irony. The southern state sourpuss persona is all his own but what you also take from the book is his warmth: his sense of humour offends noone.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hall's spoken word is funnier, 4 Sep 2009
By Spoda (Maidenhead) - See all my reviews
I saw Rich Hall live some time ago and laughed my head off, so I was very much looking forward to this. The short stories are strange and interesting, and often weird but unless you imagine him saying the words, they're not that funny.

Good for an easy, short read, but you probably won't remember the stories after a few weeks.
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