The Super Spud Trilogy [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!

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.

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.