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'At last someone's had the sense of humour to take the mickey out of ['misery memoirs']. Couldn't be funnier.'
-- The Daily Mirror
'Kelly gives it everything, any speck of misery that can be included has been - a glorious overload of dysfunction.' -- Publishing News
'The trade will certainly embrace it, it is an incredibly sick parody of the misery memoir.' -- The Bookseller
-- The Daily Mirror
'Kelly gives it everything, any speck of misery that can be included has been - a glorious overload of dysfunction.' -- Publishing News
'The trade will certainly embrace it, it is an incredibly sick parody of the misery memoir.' -- The Bookseller
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'At last someone's had the sense of humour to take the mickey out of ['misery memoirs']. Couldn't be funnier.'
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's dangerous to read this book in public. The people around you will see you reading what looks like another abusive childhood story. However, the loud snorts of disbelief, peals of laughter and table banging will confuse and appall them immediately. From prostitution to Tourettes via necrophilia, anorexia and autism, this is easily the funniest book of the decade. Amazingly it gets funnier as it goes on, and the last few chapters are amongst the funniest in history.
So far I have read this tome four times in a week and still find something I've missed. It's safe to say that I'll be reccommending this book to everyone with a sense of humour.
So far I have read this tome four times in a week and still find something I've missed. It's safe to say that I'll be reccommending this book to everyone with a sense of humour.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By sionnyn
Format:Paperback
For anyone who is sickened by the self regarding, often fraudulent miserylit genre that has become prevalent of late, this is a breath of fresh air. Very funny and well observed parody of the style.
Unless you are a pompous, humourless Salman rushdie type reader, you will laugh at this.
Unless you are a pompous, humourless Salman rushdie type reader, you will laugh at this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By F. Verdin
Format:Paperback
I borrowed this book from a friend on holiday this summer, having read a couple of pages I had to continue!! I bought it for my brother's birthday present and he was soon sitting in a corner giggling to himself!
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A Life Less Ordinary
Michael Kelly, writing as Sunny McCreary, has written possibly the most politically incorrect book you're ever likely to read which, as far as I'm concerned, is a good thing. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2009 by Ronan Smith
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Groin-sprainingly funny
While this is ostensibly a satire of the ever-growing Painful Lives section of bookshops, Michael Horatio Kelly's technique of relentlessly piling misery upon misery to create a... Read more
Published on 8 April 2009 by Mr. J. Russell
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Informal
Contains little of the commended formality present in 'Roy Orbison in Clingfilm' (apparently these two books are related), but then, few books do. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2008 by J. Malvern
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Don't take life so seriously!!!!
I write in response to the review slating this book, it is quite apparent by the wording on the front cover Quote: "Stuck to a window" and by the wording on the back cover Quote:... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2008 by Get a Grip!
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Excellent fun.
Can't wait for another.
Get scribbling Mr Kelly!
Can't wait for another.
Get scribbling Mr Kelly!
Published on 6 Oct 2008 by David
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Excellent
We need more writers like Sunny; could this be our generations Charles Bukowski? Just as you think the author cannot take you to more deprived depths, in the next chapter he does. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2008 by Baginsky
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SUNNY IS A WINNER !!!!!
WELL DONE MICHAEL KELLY !!! MY GODAWFUL LIFE WAS SO FUNNY I NEARLY
FELL OFF THE COUCH ( GOOD JOB I NEVER BECAUSE MY ONE LEGGED GRANNIE
WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR LOOKING... Read more
FELL OFF THE COUCH ( GOOD JOB I NEVER BECAUSE MY ONE LEGGED GRANNIE
WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR LOOKING... Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2008 by jules s
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Please don't buy this book
I have read several "bad start, makes good" books over the years and enjoyed experiencing the tales of how people have overcome great tragedy in their lives and gone on to become... Read more
Published on 26 July 2008 by J. Crow
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