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Carnage on the Committee (Hardcover)

by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Collins Crime; First Edition edition (4 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0002326736
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002326735
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 600,313 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness' Independent'Sprightly, saucy and ingenious' Sunday Times'Dudley Edwards is an equal-opportunities satirist. She's rude to every persuasion.' Daily Telegraph'[Ruth Dudley Edwards] writes ebullient novels frilled with entertaining eccentrics' The Times'No one is writing wittier mystery fiction in Britain today that Ruth Dudley Edwards' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

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Latest in Ruth Dudley Edwards's hilarious series of crime novels lampooning the British EstablishmentWhen the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness 'Jack' Troutbeck to step into the breach. Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges worries the baroness not in the slightest -- it's the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread. But noblesse must oblige, even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgement of the literati. With the baroness at the helm, the judges resume the task of whittling away at the short-list. But the killer, too, has resumed and is whittling away at the judges one by one ...In deplorable taste and wickedly funny, this, the tenth in the Robert Amiss series, will consolidate the author's reputation for scurrilous humour.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it now, 3 Jul 2004
I don't usually buy books in hardback or read book of this type, but for Carnage on the Committee, I made an exception. I would recommend this book for anyone looking for a very entertaining read. The only thing I would say is not to do what I did and read it in public as people look at you strangely when you giggle uncontrollably on a bus.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Sendup of Literary Prize Committees, 6 Jun 2005
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Although the Knapper-Warburton Committee, some of whom get bumped off, is charged with awarding a Booker-like prize and we are intrigued to find out whodunit, the real plot here is the skewering of the self-regarding posturing of figures in the academic and literary worlds. We have the Queer Studies, gender-concerned, politically correct, Derridean deconstructionist and self-invented stereotypes which might become burdensome if not for the poisonously witty pen of Dudley Wright whose lampooning is both deft and good-humored. Lady Jack Troutbeck, who insists on being called 'Madam Chairwoman' to the gasps of some of her committee members, is a real creation, one I'd love to meet in real life, although I might find myself cringing if she were to decide to puncture my own personal balloon of pretentiousness.

Anyone who has ever sat on an academic or prize committee will find much that is deplorably recognizable here. The madness is all leavened by the 'bloody good guys,' as Lady Jack calls them, who bring some sanity to the proceedings.

Thumbs up!

Scott Morrison

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1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Dull dull dull, 11 Sep 2005
This review is from: Carnage on the Committee (Paperback)
This book is tedious in the extreme. I gave up half way through when I realised I didn't care about any of the characters and that the plot hadn't moved on from page one. Too much dialogue - I suppose it's intended to be witty, but it just gets in the way. Many times I found myself having to go back to the start of the conversation and work my way through the interlacing paragraphs to find out if person A or person B had said a particular thing. And after a while I realised that I didn't really give a hoot who said what to whom, or why.
A complete waste of money.
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