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Smokin' David Jones and The Deep Fried Olympics (Sad Ending) [Kindle Edition]

Jason West
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Arriving at a little known university in West Wales young David Jones pursues the fruits of love. In his effort to woo he discovers a surprising ability to run extremely fast; simultaneously becoming a little respected regular patient at the local hospital.

In love and weighed down with talent he is put through a punishing training regime designed to convert his potential. Feeling unhappy and exploited he struggles and drops out.

Supported by his best friend, and despite going back on the beer, David’s times improve. He appears to be running fast on happiness, somehow. The pair set about creating a media circus around his outsized ability. The tabloid press and his new sponsors provide both the opportunity and the cash to embark on a series of races, parties and intensive care units.

Success, mystique and marketing make David the new idol of the UK provoking a nationwide increase in drinking, smoking and the eating of fast food. The resulting financial crisis causes the government to act in a way it finds almost unpalatable.

Strange new coach onboard and leaving a trail of deceit, greed and guilt David gives the final performances of his career at the UK’s biggest sporting event for years, the Olympic Games.

It can go either way and if you buy this version you will get to read the sad ending :-(

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5.0 out of 5 stars Something to remember 2012 for?, 6 Feb 2012
A very readable and entertaining debut novel, and released at an opportune time (a financial and social meltdown synchronous with the year of the Olympics - considering this book was written in the `90s, we have a perceptive author here!).

On the surface, this book may be read as an example of the blokes' equivalent to chicklit, but it doesn't take long to appreciate the satire and the consistent messages about commitment (to both cause and person) and family values. If you choose to focus on these, the positive message to take home from this story is apparent beneath the justifiably scathing look into the interplay between government, big business and the Average Joe on the street.

This book probably heralds the most laughs I've had whilst indulging in cynicism about `the system' and there is bleak humour in the recognition of the normality of the dysfunctional relationships that weave through the story. The characters could have stepped right out of a sitcom - David Jones stands out as, at heart, a likeable innocent (almost a little boy in a very large man's body) in stark contrast to the money-jaded moguls who surround him; the personalities of the latter being amusingly defined by their very lack of them.

Whether you pluck for the `happy ever after' or tragic ending, rest assured that - as with all good stories about our sometimes painful existence - love and sense win the day. If you're looking for something worthwhile to entertain you while the Olympics is taking place this year, you could do much worse than decide to read this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It could happen!, 26 Jan 2012
With McDonalds sponsoring the Olympics and those Olympics being only months away this is a mad story about a fat bloke who is somehow the fastest thing on two legs. When it was written it was probably a really far-fetched idea but now it fells like it could happen! It's also funny and a love story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars another side to the Olympic 100 metres final, 27 Jan 2012
This review is from: Smokin' David Jones and The Deep Fried Olympics (Sad Ending) (Kindle Edition)
Beer, cigarettes and fried food aficionado, chunky David Jones, first finds himself at his last choice of university, thinly disguised in West Wales; then finds himself a rugby hero, no longer a virgin, and sent down, so to speak. All of which propels him on a vertiginous route to the Olympic 100 metres final, via multinational, press, and government corruption; and a wicked scrap under the Golden Arches. A wonderfully hedonistic romp of a debut novel from the big man Out There!
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