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College.com (Paperback)

by Jon Buscall (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: PULP Faction (13 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901072134
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901072136
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,143,948 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis
Set in the real and virtual campus, Read Me is an online whodunnit showing that despite the priveleged lifestyle of today''s students, paranoia is an ever present part of their mental picture.'

From the Publisher
a Couplandesque take on UEA and university life
"UEA graduate Jon Buscall’s much talked about novel College.com [is] a Couplandesque take on UEA and university life. Passages on the shag quest that is the LCR will surely chime with and amuse readers." Concrete

"A group of first years arrives at the University of East Anglia, desperate to start three years of shagging, studying and socialising. There’s slick Nick, an egotist with an eye for the ladies; anorexic Andie; Daniel and Blair, both wrestling with their sexuality; and Joanna, desperate to prove her street cred. Played out against the subplot of a serial rapist on campus, the brief narratives are consistently sharp, witty and spot-on. Essential reading." THE TIMES

"Talk of a serial rapist resounds around the campus, people's lives are in danger, and nobody has a clue to who the attacker is… Throughout the story, written from a number of viewpoints including dairy entries from the unknown attacker calling himself ****@uni.ac.uk, the reader is likely to try guessing who the attacker is and who will be the next victim - it's very unlikely you'll fathom it out. The unexpected ending may require a few minutes thought before coming to the conclusion that you think you understand it. Overall, an entertaining read." Student Online


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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read, 23 Nov 2001
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This is a great novel. It's not just a thriller: it's also really laugh-out-loud funny. Definitely something to dig your teeth into on a wet and windy afternoon. Jon Buscall is a talent to watch! I can't wait for his next book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars interesting but quite derivative, 10 Oct 2001
By A Customer
College.com is a dark and at times laugh outloud funny depiction of a bunch of first years at UEA. The end in particular is fascinating and Buscall clearly makes some interesting points. Having said that I have a major problem with this novel and that is that for all its irony and entertainment it pretty much reads like a straight rip off of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction - from the ambivalent characters through to the deliberatly obscure ending and even the actual device for the telling the tale and the deadpan style of the different narrators. The publishers namecheck Copeland presumably because of the homages to him which litter the book but its clearly Ellis who is the major influence. Now it may be that this echo of The Rules of Attraction was intentional - after all there are references to Less Than Zero and American Pyscho in the book - but the problem is that its one thing to attempt to reset a novel in other time and place and quite another to simply create that novel's almost mirror image. Overall then I would recommend this book but I think those who haven't read Easton Ellis might, ironically enough, enjoy it more.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Depressing but true, 4 Dec 1999
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The cover blurb sets this book up as a whodunnit. But when I got to the end I was utterly clueless about who exactly had, in fact, dunn it.

I immediately emailed the author and very rudely demanded an explanation. To my eternal shame he wrote back straight away without showing any of the contempt I richly deserved.

He pointed out that I was being a bit thick, that the point of the rapist wasn't far off what the review at the bottom of this page says, and that unless you'd read the book in a deep coma you really should have figured it out. OWTTE.

But overlooking this complete lack of comprehension on my part, I thought that the behaviour of the other characters -- though all too real -- was a bit depressing. They stumble from one disaster to another, with only themselves to blame. In fact, in his reply the author himself called them all 'wankers'.

In summary: a dark but interesting read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Playful + full of surprises
College.com is an excellent book. Ignore the comparisons to Bret Ellis, Jon Buscall has written a tense, funny and ultimately playful novel that shows a nightmare vison of college... Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars The Rules of Attraction, UEA-style
Being an American who studied at UEA, I was immediately drawn to this book when I spotted it a few years ago. Read more
Published on 28 May 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Mad for it!
College.com is a really fantastic book - a great read - fast moving and you get totally locked into it. A really exciting story about life on a British campus. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Violent, savagely comic: like Irvine Welsh, only smarter
Set at the University of East Anglia, College.com is the story of a bunch of image conscious, E-popping, shag-searching freshers and what happens to them when an e-mail addicted... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars The Darker Side of UEA
This novel was not quite what I expected. From what I had heard about it, I somehow expected much of it to consist of fairly repulsive violence. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 1999

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