- Paperback: 597 pages
- Publisher: Furious Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (16 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954951204
- ISBN-13: 978-0954951207
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,505,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A comedy. A love story. A satire. A tension-filled, turbulent passage to self-knowledge.
Albert’s a genius and a slacker. Somehow he becomes ruinously recognised as a prophet by a crackpot New Age religion. Along the way to catastrophe, he encounters Jennifer, a spectral young woman with a long-held heavy secret who turns his winsome world upside-down. It is love... which is the one thing Albert can’t handle, and he runs away. But when crazy catastrophe also befalls Jennifer, Albert knows his running must stop.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, if overlong, read.,
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This review is from: We Poets (Paperback)
This is a witty and entertaining book. I enjoyed the read but felt it was slightly overlong.
It's obviously a very personal (some could say autobiographical) work, and at risk of offending the author and his friends, some of the characterisation is a little heavy-handed and frustrating. But as a first novel it's a superb achievement, Alwyne has crafted a well considered, informed and balanced work that touches on many subjects and feels very human. He displays obvious writing flair that I feel would translate to a more worldly direction. Well done =)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious!!!!,
This review is from: We Poets (Paperback)
Most people suffer from delusions of grandeur and this is exactly what Albert has; he is a lazy bum who thinks that he is too clever for the world and therefore tries hard not to be a part of it; his favourite hobby being staring at the ceiling. Albert is the essence of all those things you hate about "creative" people, yet somehow you still warm to him. As he begins his hilarious journey into the ridiculous mess that is modern religion you can't drag yourself away from this book. I became so engrossed in this future cult classic that I started quoting it at work. If you want to read a book that will have you in stitches, will make you cry in places and in others realise the madness prevalent in the world; which it exposes so well through satire, then get We Poets - its brilliant!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Breathtaking!,
This review is from: We Poets (Paperback)
Where to start?!! OK, try this: THIS IS THE COOLEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!A uni friend told me about it so I bought it myself and started reading it after my exams. I took it on holiday with me. NEVER DO WHAT I DID! Leave We Poets at home or you will spend all your time reading instead of doing holiday stuff! My boyfriend was going mental at me with my face buried in We Poets all week! It's really hard to explain what it's all about because it's about so many things! OK I'll start by saying how FUNNY it often is. Actually the funniest book I have ever read. But it's also one of the saddest books I have ever read. Really moving in parts. Bloody weird at times, mind you! It should be called Weird Poets! But even though it seems unhinged at times it's utterly sane too, what the writer has to say about things. Bizarrely there's some science fiction type stories embedded in it, but they're really cool and clever. I know f**k all about science but I liked them. Each little SF ramble is like the outline of a film plot. A good plot, too. Overall it's a satire on religion. And it's a study in how sensitive people can be driven to doubting their own sanity by the true insanity of the world around them. But it's also a strange love story. And a comedy! It's a f**king great comedy!!! Honest, nothing I could say could really encapsulate this wonderful book so you'd better just read it yourself.
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