- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd (30 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718143965
- ISBN-13: 978-0718143961
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 16 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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- #34 in Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Women & Art
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Amazon.co.uk Review
New Year's Day, 1999. Vic Reeves wakes up to discover a flock of seven white doves of peace flying around his bedroom, "casting a Disneylike sense of well-being about." However, all is not well; Vic re- awakens several hours later to discover that the doves have stolen his prized bust of Caligula: "a foreboding sense of gloom now hangs over the home". So begins Vic Reeves' Sunboiled Onions, a fictional diary packed with Vic's own paintings and drawings of a month in the mind of one of the UK's most popular comedians.
Like his TV series with sidekick Bob Mortimer, Sunboiled Onions has a surreal menace in its humour, reflected in Vic's weird drawings of famous figures, which are often uncannily accurate yet strangely disconcerting with their eyes drawn too far apart. Elvis crops up throughout the book, appearing as Sir Walter Raleigh in King Lear (naked from the waist down, of course), buying fan heaters from Argos with Frank Sinatra and ironing his slacks in his bucolic cottage. Alongside such reveries, Vic deals with the problems of his everyday life: "January 10--Flies swarm around the pork in my attic, so I get rid of it, all 150 lbs of it, in a ditch near B&Q". Along the way, Vic muses on various celebrities and their foibles, including Michael Jackson, Abba, Henry VIII, Eric Morecombe and Richard Nixon. Those who love Reeves and Mortimer will celebrate Sunboiled Onions as another manifestation of the genius of the man they call the Darlington Dadaist. --Jerry Brotton
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Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves: including fictional diaries, modern fables and mysterious ramblings, this text is a surreal journey packed with visual style and eclectic ideas. It also includes never-seen-before paintings and drawings by the author.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves" And what a wonderful world it is. A rare opportunity to step into the mind of a true genius, the book is filled with spectacular art and wonderful stories, sucking the reader into a better,funnier,much more intersting world. Vic is truly a unique and incredible man,and this book is the best one i have read in awhile. Very recommanded.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I live round the corner from Bob's childhood home, and a stones throw from Vic's teenage haunts. This book has come to be my bible. I don't worship it or think it holds foundations of religious belief, I just love the fact that it provides pure escapism and perhaps an idea of the world that any Vic and Bob fan would pertain to live in. Imagine if you can, a world filled with sugar unicycles being ridden by forks.
Pure, unadulterated genius and effortlessly hilarious. I don't think I'll ever enjoy a book more.
Enjoy
Pure, unadulterated genius and effortlessly hilarious. I don't think I'll ever enjoy a book more.
Enjoy
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The cat's knackers! Highlights include Geri Halliwell and her itchy nipple, Queen Elizabeth 1st urinating in the style of a man (on to a passing tortoise), and Matthew Kelley's dimensions. The drawings typically feature lumpiness of some sort, cods, and tiny eyes that seem to want to get away from each other. If you like the fop's brand of surrealism, you'll like this. Having said that, a lot of people just don't get the book. If you can't see the comedic potential of a shrimp (with antlers) in a suit case on a window ledge, you'd best leave it alone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
absolutely fantastic
This book is fantastic! the combination of astounding art and surreal stories enchant the reader through out!it is the best book i have read in a long time... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2001
Utterly, utterly bizarre
Straddling the line between high art and surreal comedy, this is a disturbing peek into the mind of Vic Reeves. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2000 by Mr. A. Pomeroy
'Sunboiled Onions' is the funniest book I've ever read.
'Sunboiled Onions' is a very good book to read because his pictures are both clear to understand and funny. Read more
Published on 30 July 2000
Tudor Vacuum Cleaners
This book is not for the faint hearted. Vic Reeves clearly lives in a very unusual world, although its a place we all find ourselves in after extensive drinking. Read more
Published on 14 July 2000
It's a beauty!
Surreal to say the least but still well worth the read and certinally worth it for the pictures, I was laughing all the way back to Exeter on the bus and had people wondering what... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2000
Brightly-Coloured Machine Tools
'Sun Boiled Onions' is an utterly strange book that lurks in the narrow band between genius comedy and genuinely surreal art. Read more
Published on 2 May 2000 by Mr. A. Pomeroy
He's not in a wheelbarrow anymore, but it's still good.
Too short, and some of the dairy entries will make you laugh, and a few will make you bored. However, the pictures alone are truely great, and it is worth buying the book purely... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2000
Surrealist humour of the highest order.
If you've seen Reeves on TV, and are wondering what Sun Boiled Onions will be like, then prepare for a most bizarre experience, filled with the kind of surrealist comedy which... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2000
Funnist Thing I've Read All Year
'A Tudor Vacuum Clearner saying "how do you do"'
The material in this book is used in the songs for the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
Vic Reeves is a fantastic artist... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 1999
Inspired, mad, hilarious if not a tad short. A must.....
This is a must for all Reeves fans. A little on the short side it will have you giggling to yourself and telling others the hilarious jokes. Buy it now!
Published on 14 Dec 1999 by dave_clayton@on-edie.net
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