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Sun Boiled Onions (Hardcover)

by Vic Reeves (Author)
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Product details

  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd (30 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0718143965
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718143961
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.5 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 213,079 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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New Year's Day, 1999. Vic Reeves wakes up to discover a flock of seven white doves of peace flying around his bedroom, "casting a Disneylike sense of well-being about." However, all is not well; Vic re- awakens several hours later to discover that the doves have stolen his prized bust of Caligula: "a foreboding sense of gloom now hangs over the home". So begins Vic Reeves' Sunboiled Onions, a fictional diary packed with Vic's own paintings and drawings of a month in the mind of one of the UK's most popular comedians.

Like his TV series with sidekick Bob Mortimer, Sunboiled Onions has a surreal menace in its humour, reflected in Vic's weird drawings of famous figures, which are often uncannily accurate yet strangely disconcerting with their eyes drawn too far apart. Elvis crops up throughout the book, appearing as Sir Walter Raleigh in King Lear (naked from the waist down, of course), buying fan heaters from Argos with Frank Sinatra and ironing his slacks in his bucolic cottage. Alongside such reveries, Vic deals with the problems of his everyday life: "January 10--Flies swarm around the pork in my attic, so I get rid of it, all 150 lbs of it, in a ditch near B&Q". Along the way, Vic muses on various celebrities and their foibles, including Michael Jackson, Abba, Henry VIII, Eric Morecombe and Richard Nixon. Those who love Reeves and Mortimer will celebrate Sunboiled Onions as another manifestation of the genius of the man they call the Darlington Dadaist. --Jerry Brotton



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Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves: including fictional diaries, modern fables and mysterious ramblings, this text is a surreal journey packed with visual style and eclectic ideas. It also includes never-seen-before paintings and drawings by the author.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surrealist humour of the highest order., 11 Jan 2000
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If you've seen Reeves on TV, and are wondering what Sun Boiled Onions will be like, then prepare for a most bizarre experience, filled with the kind of surrealist comedy which makes the likes of Shooting Stars appear almost normal.

If you find Vics style to your liking then you will certainly not be disappointed with this book, typical examples of what to expect including mistaking a spoon for a rat, and a building brick for the singer Blondie. If you brain can handle it, then you will love this book and return to it again and again to ponder exactly how the mind of Vic Reeves works.

His various pictures and painting are also fantastic, combining an obvious talent with his amazing sense of humour.

Alas, if you are not a fan of Vic Reeves, or you do not find this type of surrealist comedy appealing, then you probably won't grasp what it is that makes Sun Boiled Onions so hillarious. For those who enjoy something that little bit different (or should that be completely and utterly wacky?) then this book will have you in stiches, every time you read it.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Briliant., 27 May 2001
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"Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves" And what a wonderful world it is. A rare opportunity to step into the mind of a true genius, the book is filled with spectacular art and wonderful stories, sucking the reader into a better,funnier,much more intersting world. Vic is truly a unique and incredible man,and this book is the best one i have read in awhile. Very recommanded.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Sunboiled Onions' is the funniest book I've ever read., 30 Jul 2000
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'Sunboiled Onions' is a very good book to read because his pictures are both clear to understand and funny. Vic Reeves draws a picture of something like the tudor, and half of him is a vacuum cleaner, he has made this picture funny because he has drawn a picture of fiction and non-fiction combined into one, and he also draws his pictures large and bold with not much else around it. The diary part of the book also made me laugh because of the way he wrote his diary. It was as if he was in a different world because he wrote it with humour and reality. I enjoyed this book so much that I couldn't stop reading it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantabulously superioristic.
I live round the corner from Bob's childhood home, and a stones throw from Vic's teenage haunts. This book has come to be my bible. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely fantastic
This book is fantastic! the combination of astounding art and surreal stories enchant the reader through out!it is the best book i have read in a long time... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly, utterly bizarre
Straddling the line between high art and surreal comedy, this is a disturbing peek into the mind of Vic Reeves. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2000 by Mr. A. Pomeroy

4.0 out of 5 stars Tudor Vacuum Cleaners
This book is not for the faint hearted. Vic Reeves clearly lives in a very unusual world, although its a place we all find ourselves in after extensive drinking. Read more
Published on 14 Jul 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a beauty!
Surreal to say the least but still well worth the read and certinally worth it for the pictures, I was laughing all the way back to Exeter on the bus and had people wondering what... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Brightly-Coloured Machine Tools
'Sun Boiled Onions' is an utterly strange book that lurks in the narrow band between genius comedy and genuinely surreal art. Read more
Published on 2 May 2000 by Mr. A. Pomeroy

5.0 out of 5 stars He's not in a wheelbarrow anymore, but it's still good.
Too short, and some of the dairy entries will make you laugh, and a few will make you bored. However, the pictures alone are truely great, and it is worth buying the book purely... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Funnist Thing I've Read All Year
'A Tudor Vacuum Clearner saying "how do you do"'

The material in this book is used in the songs for the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

Vic Reeves is a fantastic artist... Read more

Published on 19 Dec 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired, mad, hilarious if not a tad short. A must.....
This is a must for all Reeves fans. A little on the short side it will have you giggling to yourself and telling others the hilarious jokes. Buy it now!
Published on 14 Dec 1999 by dave_clayton@on-edie.net

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to Laugh Out Loud
I bought 'Sun Boiled Onions' as an antidote to boredom, and because Vic Reeves is a wonderful television comic. I was not prepared for the phenomenon which I encountered. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 1999

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