- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Black Swan; New edition edition (Oct 22 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0552999849
- ISBN-13: 978-0552999847
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,130,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A rampant roar through the stultifying world of office life. This is a wonderfully funny thriller with a firm grasp on the frustrations of everyday life. A terrific new voice." Midweek "A fine first novel."
Book Description
A highly entertaining as well as poignant tale about men’s needs for routine, and what happens when life intervenes.
An insightful and funny thriller about love, friendship, drinking, drugs, soccer, computer programming -- and the perfect financial heist -- set to a background of office routine.
An insightful and funny thriller about love, friendship, drinking, drugs, soccer, computer programming -- and the perfect financial heist -- set to a background of office routine.
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MacCabe - An Unrecognised Genius,
By Christopher Mordain (Newcastle, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stickleback (Paperback)
Should you have a reasonably developed sense of humour please do your absolute utmost to ignore the other review on this title. What the previous reviewer so cruelly missed was the salient purpose of this novel - to entertain. It is quite simply one of the most insightful exposes of office culture and its attendant ennui that you will ever have the fortune to read. Anyone who has ever sat in a grey, uninspiring office, situated on a grey, featureless, business park, on the periphery of a grey McTown will simply rejoice at McCabe's ability to describe the essence of this experience (outright desperation). The fact is MacCabe HAS brilliantly explored what it is to be a young man living a hopelessly average existence, but he does it with a lightness of touch; through humour and suggestion. In this sense it does not lead the reader by the nose in some didactic 'and the lesson to be learned here folks....' style, although it does make some serious points about the disintegration of society and the challenges of being a youngish male. By turns it is funny, poignant and thought provoking. Forget Brookmyre, thus guy is the real deal. Buy it.
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Diverting But Not Deep,
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This review is from: Stickleback (Paperback)
McCabe's debut is ostensibly about the male need for routine, as 29 year-old programmer Ian strives to recover from being dumped by his girl by retreating into a shell of comfortable routine. However, his bland life is interrupted by the kidnapping of his loathed geeky officemate Archie by a pair of thugs who demand that Ian engineer a financial heist by programming a little hitch in the bank software he is checking for Y2K compliance (not unlike the premise in the awesome movie Office Space). How that all plays out is the bulk of the book, although there is an odd tangent involving a footballing mate who dies, and a final pages encounter with the ex-girlfriend. It all moves along at a pretty good clip, with some 56 chapters of 4-5 pages, but fails in making any sense of the broader themes about being a young man it attempts to bring out.
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MacCabe - An Unrecognised Genius,
By Christopher Mordain - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stickleback (Paperback)
Should you have a reasonably developed sense of humour please do your absolute utmost to ignore the other review on this title. What the previous reviewer so cruelly missed was the salient purpose of this novel - to entertain. It is quite simply one of the most insightful exposes of office culture and its attendant ennui that you will ever have the fortune to read. Anyone who has ever sat in a grey, uninspiring office, situated on a grey, featureless, business park, on the periphery of a grey McTown will simply rejoice at McCabe's ability to describe the essence of this experience (outright desperation). The fact is MacCabe HAS brilliantly explored what it is to be a young man living a hopelessly average existence, but he does it with a lightness of touch; through humour and suggestion. In this sense it does not lead the reader by the nose in some didactic 'and the lesson to be learned here folks....' style, although it does make some serious points about the disintegration of society and the challenges of being a youngish male. By turns it is funny, poignant and thought provoking. Forget Brookmyre, thus guy is the real deal. Buy it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Diverting But Not Deep,
By A. Ross - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stickleback (Paperback)
McCabe's debut is ostensibly about the male need for routine, as 29 year-old programmer Ian strives to recover from being dumped by his girl by retreating into a shell of comfortable routine. However, his bland life is interrupted by the kidnapping of his loathed geeky officemate Archie by a pair of thugs who demand that Ian engineer a financial heist by programming a little hitch in the bank software he is checking for Y2K compliance (not unlike the premise in the awesome movie Office Space). How that all plays out is the bulk of the book, although there is an odd tangent involving a footballing mate who dies, and a final pages encounter with the ex-girlfriend. It all moves along at a pretty good clip, with some 56 chapters of 4-5 pages, but fails in making any sense of the broader themes about being a young man it attempts to bring out.
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