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2.0 out of 5 stars Send it back for proper editing!!, 2 Jan 2006

By	"anderson_linzi" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ripple Effect (Paperback)

The spelling, grammar and punctuation in this book make it hard to read for someone as pedantic as me.

There are stupid mistakes all over the place, like "than you very much" and "the results were been checked". It's as though the editors have simply run spell check through the whole book. I wouldn't mind that, but in his Acknowledgements, he actually thanks someone for line-editing the entire book! Well that person wants sacking then, eh?

I'm not interested in football at all. If I were, then perhaps I wouldn't be the sort of person to get annoyed about spelling mistakes and perhaps I would enjoy the book a lot more. But as it stands, the mistakes in this book made my toes curl with sheer fury (that's a sight to behold, I can tell you!).

I feel like highlighting all the inaccuracies and sending the book back to the publishers. It's rotten.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A clever idea but badly executed, 15 May 2006

By	Nik (N.J) - See all my reviews

It seemed like a great idea for a story and begins well enough. Sadly what could have been a truly humorous tale is somewhat let down by poor narrative and sub-standard writing.
Ben Elton does this genre of novel far better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A 'footie' novel that all 'footie' fans will love, 30 Jun 2003

By	MIKE HARRISON (Bradford, West Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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Reading the ‘blurb on the back of the book I couldn’t quite work out how local baker and Middleton Edwardians football club fan Bill Baxter, would set off a ‘ripple effect’ by failing to add jam to a batch of doughnuts? But there again, this happens after he has seen his side, a lowly third division outfit, go from 2-0 up to lose 4-2 at home. How many of us have gone home in such bad mood following a home performance like that? Most of us I know, exactly. However innocuous, this starts a train of events that unknowingly and unwittingly puts high profile careers in football and in the government in jeopardy and like a boomerang, returns to Bill and leads him to fight for the very survival of his perennially underachieving and beloved club.

Dominic Holland’s acute observations on what it is like to follow a lowly football club must come from his life-long allegiance to Brentford. The letter that Bill writes to welcome the new chairman to the club could well have been written by any number of fans desperate to see their club survive, the book is worth buying just for that page alone! (page 19 by the way!) His gentle observational stand-up comedy gives him an eye for laughs that can be found in every situation he places the believable characters that inhabit this funny tale about what is all wrong about football 11 years on from the inception of the Premier League.

I like to read books, but even more, I like to read books that are easy to read and this is so very entertaining such a real page turner, that the pages fly past with ease. The chapters are short and pacy as the story rolls along engrossing the reader. Whenever I finish a book like “The Ripple Effect” it is always a bittersweet experience. ‘Ripple’ is so well written you want to know what is the conclusion to this absurd, but actually very plausible story. But once it’s over, it’s a slightly sad experience when you have to leave behind a whole host of characters that you may have ‘lived with’ for a day or two. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I can’t think of any football fan that wouldn’t enjoy reading this book.

Dominic Holland is one of us, a true football fan. For producing such an acutely well-observed piece on what is it like supporting and believing in football how it used to be and still should be, he deserves your support.

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4.0 out of 5 stars fewer calories than a jam doughnut
I was really perplexed by this book. Certain things annoyed me, such as the completely unconvincing name of the fictional football club, the Middleton Edwardians, which is sub Roy... Read more

Published on 4 Jul 2003 by Stuart

5.0 out of 5 stars Another hit
Having so enjoyed the author's first novel, Only in America, I was looking forward The Ripple Effect, but slightly concerned that he had a difficult act to follow. Read more

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