It's one of the funniest books I've read in a long time,
though the
characters are killers. The humor lies in the fact that the
killings are
accidental, and the killers are more concerned about the
distance to the
nearest pub than they are about the fact that they are
killing folks. They
manage to put a number of their clients under the ground, and
being
fence-builders, they drop most of them into post-holes. On
the first
occasion they decide "it was best to leave his hat on."
It was short listed for the Booker prize. Has anyone read
it?
Tom
>Maybe the novel as MTV clip at best. I don't know how
much mileage this
>cat's got left in him. This is an excusably poor first
novel from a guy who
>clearly hasn't learned his trade yet. His use of
language is beneath
>contempt "He andironed (?) out of the desert." Nothing
like stopping yr
>readers until they figure out . . . oh! yeh! Someone
pushing himself up
does
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