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The Super Spud Trilogy [Kindle Edition]

Michael Diack
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Genetic engineering has accomplished many things, one of which has been to create the Super Spud! The humble potato elevated to new heights, creating the most flavoursome crisps ever known to humankind! But that's not all - A magical transformation occurs to all Super Spud crisps not eaten before their use-by date. They take on a life of their own. And so long as they remain undetected by humans, they enjoy life in their own Super Spud cities, take part in major Super Spud sporting events and even start the odd Super Spud war or two. Join Colin, Cougar, Hannibal Vector, Generals Rock, Jock and Strap and all the others in their rollicking adventures. You'll never look at a packet of crisps in the same way again! Fun, quirky and totally original, Michael Diack's debut is strictly for those who are still big kids at heart.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 475 KB
  • Print Length: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Pen Press; Kindle Edition edition (16 Mar 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007M2KQPI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #268,685 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Crisp writing with an imaginative flavour... ! 22 Dec 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
A terrific little book suitable for the young at heart... and possibly those with a secret admiration for the humble spud. It's completely normal to anthropomorphise inanimate objects - I did it myself with a short film about a psychotic telephone many years ago. What isn't so normal is to imagine crisps (or potato chips as our American cousins call them), with personalities and lives full of adventure - even if those lives are occasionally short and their endings violent.

In fact, it's so abnormal that it's absolutely hilarious! Michael Diack has the sort of warped perception of reality I enjoy and his writing puts me in mind of a slightly blacker Terry Pratchett. This is nicely original writing divided into three stories with different heroes and I found many laugh out loud passages I will remember forever.

That you would care about the `lives' of genetically modified crisps is astonishing, but care you will and there's a subtext about the way we mess about with food that's quite thought provoking. The characters are superb. Cougar, Colin, Martin... you'll find yourself following their adventures without a thought for starch, potato blight or the vile taste of cheese and onion flavour. This imaginative idea should be picked up by Hollywood; it would make a tremendous animated series, or I can even see Jim Carey in a crisp suit as Cougar. Excellent stuff!
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Magical packets of crisps that are alive and participating in a world of adventure... this book is nothing if not quirky!

The crisps have traits based on their flavouring and get up to all sorts of fun stuff including their version of the Olympics, falling in love, being chased by animals, and even a "civil" war.

It's a very cleverly written book based on a subject that I am 99.99% sure hasn't been covered before. I think fiction is missing out on authors who want to deviate from the norm. Michael Diack was prepared to take a risk and write a book based on something not even near the box, let alone in it. Hhe succeeded in producing a really fun, enjoyable, book.

It is very much worth the download.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "You can never have too many STD's" 14 Nov 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Super Spud trilogy is a comical adventure that follows the lives of a group of genetically engineered, magical crisps. A number of these packets make it out of their multipack -- away from the humans -- and go to live on a landfill, embarking on a number of quests and adventures.

The Super Spud world is a world that seems jovial and friendly (they are walking, talking crisp packets after all) yet one far more dangerous than our own. The life of a Super Spud is a fickle and dangerous one, with the perilous potatoes dropping off at a rate of knots throughout the story. They have an epic bloodlust and turn everything they do (from motor racing and football to camping) into a death sport. They're obsessed with their own fickle existences and some of them (the Steak and Spinach flavours particularly) willingly sacrifice themselves for the good of heroism and posthumous medals.

It's a fun and unpredictable world with everything inside that you could possible wish for. Every human activity, myth and past-time, seems to have its own Super Spud variant. There are references to everything from the X-Files and Star Wars to Bigfoot and Goldilocks, with a multitude of characters to fill each story. I think my favorite of the many characters would be Flash, a Gordon's gin flavored Super Spud. A perpetually drunken take on the speedy superhero who arrives by crash landing in a plane, thinking he's driving a car.

An absurdly funny book packed with a number of fun adventures and great one-liners.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magical and Magnetizing
I loved the author's sense of humor and wonderful, magnetic imagination.
Whether we like it or not - genetic engineering is here to stay. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jeannie Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Best books ever by Matthew Dummer
This book is an action packed book with lots of adventures I recommend it for 9-12 year old's and I guaranty that you will love this book. And they called it puppy love.
Published 4 months ago by Matthew Dummer
5.0 out of 5 stars Super witty satire
Super Spud is super witty in a gentle sort of way, or is it? Once I was into the story I started thinking this is actually quite a satirical stab at how we are, at our foibles. Read more
Published 4 months ago by r j askew
3.0 out of 5 stars Super spuds
This is 3 short books put together about magical crisp packets containing the genetically modified and magnificent Super Spuds. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ignite
1.0 out of 5 stars I am glad this was free!
I downloaded this as a free book and I am very glad I did not pay for it. If you are in the 8 to 12 age range you may find this funny but I was just annoyed by the story from the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Landy K
4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky.
The things that go on in the world that we, as humans, are not even aware of! Super Spuds live in rubbish dumps all over the world fighting wars with discarded lolly sticks, water... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Louise Wise
5.0 out of 5 stars Colin the Super Spud - my new friend
I did not know Colin the Super Spud yesterday, but today I feel he is my friend.
Life isn't easy for Super Spuds and from the day they are born to the day they are eaten,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Charles Bray
4.0 out of 5 stars The Super Spud Trilogy
This is a really quirky and fun adventure story about the lives of packets of crisps after their expiry date. There are some great details, i.e. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Laura Besley
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