Twenty Major’s first book, based on the characters from his blog, pulls no punches from the first page. A twisted story about brainwashing the Irish populace into becoming acoustic loving drips, it’s up to Twenty, Jimmy the Bollix, Stinking Pete, Dirty Dave, Lucky Luciano and Ron the barman to save everyone – will they be able to?
The writing style is easy to read, although the multiple tangents can make it hard to follow at times – and anyone offended by swearing should stay well clear. That said, for those that know Dublin and it’s inhabitants, the raw language and local settings will make the book come to life as it accurately reflects daily life there.
A strong storyline twists through the book and keeps the reader interested. Surprisingly, for a first novel set over a short period of time, very little of the dialogue seems drawn out, except for when the author drops in his long-winded 80’s song title puns. While I feel that they work very well on his blog, in the book they seemed a little contrived and stole attention from the main storyline.
Overall, a great read and a fantastic first novel – I can’t wait for the next one to come along. In the next few years we might just realise that Twenty could be Ireland’s answer to Terry Pratchett!
I looked for it in my local shop but it wasn’t there, i’ll pick it u over the wekend
Posted on March 14, 2008 at 8:44 pm.
This book is based on a conspiracy theory that we are being taken over by bland pop music and that only Twenty Major can save the day. I can tell you now, and being a member of the twenty third Illiteratti secret society, that this is in fact true and that this book is indeed a work of non fiction.
Tom Sharpe meets Flan O’Brien meets Brendan Behan on acid , peanuts, batter burgers and Guinness.
Buy this for you mom and freak her out
Posted on March 18, 2008 at 5:58 pm.
Freak my mom out? She already has her autographed copy!
Posted on March 18, 2008 at 6:02 pm.