Christopher Brookmyre

[PugwasHDJ80]

Cam across these about 18 months ago and both mrs p and I have re-read all of them numerous times (pretty much the only books we agree on- like music

If you havnt read him but fancy a Scottish action/comedy/crime/sociology/thriller of a read then well worth buying. Really fresh, written very much with a scots tone and all the better for it. Some of the cultural references ae a bit subtle for a middle class bloke from Bournemouth but he does at least explain them or give you enough inf to look them up.

Much recommended

[Papa Hotel]

Funny, black as night, love his stuff. Some is a bit hit and miss. One in particular I can't remember the name of, had arms dealers in it, was a bit rubbish. Where the Bodies are Buried, the most recent, is pretty good.

[g3org3y]

My gf (who is a big fan) bought me one of his a while back (All fun and games until someone loses an eye). I read about a third of it but admit I didn't really didn't enjoy it that much so gave up.

Worthwhile giving it another go?

[Papa Hotel]

g3org3y said:

My gf (who is a big fan) bought me one of his a while back (All fun and games until someone loses an eye). I read about a third of it but admit I didn't really didn't enjoy it that much so gave up.

Worthwhile giving it another go?

No, that's the one I was talking about, I didn't care for it either. He has written better stuff, I prefer the ones set in Scotland, AFAGUSLAE was a bit fanciful for my liking, crappy ending too.

[g3org3y]

Papa Hotel said:

g3org3y said:

My gf (who is a big fan) bought me one of his a while back (All fun and games until someone loses an eye). I read about a third of it but admit I didn't really didn't enjoy it that much so gave up.

Worthwhile giving it another go?

No, that's the one I was talking about, I didn't care for it either. He has written better stuff, I prefer the ones set in Scotland, AFAGUSLAE was a bit fanciful for my liking, crappy ending too.

Ah, in that case perhaps I have judged him prematurely. If I see any more of his books on offer I'll give him another go.

[thepeoplespal]

Funny character "brookmyre", Love his scottish venacular & sometimes he has more laughs over 3 pages than some books have in 350 pages. These gems can be hard to sustain & make his books a bit of an anticlimax at times. Still really like his stuff.

Colin Bateman (Norn Irish, venacular) seems to my mind a similiar writer, not as funny, but a more consistant writer, able to sustain his stories a bit better, to my mind. I try to get both writers books when they come out, so I'm only nitpicking.

[kenny Chim 4]

By far and away the best Brookmyre novel is Boiling a Frog. See here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boiling-Frog-Christopher-B...

It's a wonderful deconstruction of those hypocritical Labour harpies and spin turds that the UK suffered after May 1997. Their greed and power hungry hubris is laid B[l]air as such.. along with the desperation of the Catholic Church heirachy in Scotland trying to remain relevent and controlling.

We need more of this kind of writer in this country who with one passage in a book, can comically embarrass those self-serving left wing New Labour oiks and MEPs of that time.

Are these types now consigned to history?

I doubt it considering Labour MP Margaret Moran has just been handed a judicial supervision order for thieving at least £53,000!

[g3org3y]

^Will check it out, thanks for the heads up.

[tj2002]

I didn't really enjoy Boiling a frog but loved some of his other stuff, one fine day in the middle of the night was a good un

[Bullett]

AFAGUSLAE was one of my favourites.

I've got Bodies lined up on my Kindle. Pandaemonium was a bit odd.

[AndyWoodall]

I liked the one on the oil rig. 'One fine day in the middle of the night' although I was 17 when I last read it.