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Not the End of the World
  
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de Christopher Brookmyre (Author), Tim Machin (Performer)
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British author Brookmyre (One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night; Quite Ugly One Morning; etc.) makes his American debut with this thriller, but seems to have left most of his punch on the far side of the ocean. Scottish photographer Steff Kennedy is attending a B-list movie festival, held at an L.A. hotel, where he intends to snap some pics and joke about the self-importance of Hollywood. There he meets and makes eyes with Maddy Witherson, a sweet, misunderstood porn star famous for her leading role in Whore of Babylon; it is later revealed she was sexually abused as a girl by her Bible-waving father, a U.S. senator. Meanwhile, LAPD officer Larry Freeman is investigating the mysterious disappearance of a group of scientists from an ocean research vessel. Everyone's paths cross when a conservative Christian group decides to augment its anti-Hollywood rhetoric with a well-placed bomb, which literally dumps Maddy into Steff's arms. The bombers, however, demand an even more extreme remedy Maddy's suicide on national television as an act of public repentance or they'll blow up a boat full of Hollywood executives. While it's obvious that everyone will scramble to stop the bombers, less plausible elements like a bunch of long-lost religious scrolls and lots of chatter about the impending end of the world, are distracting. Brookmyre's previous book may have achieved some success across the Atlantic, but this jumbled effort feels like it's been cobbled together from whatever trashy American TV shows are currently in British syndication.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Brookmyre, a Fleet Street journalist turned fiction writer, has the rep in the UK of being a master of the comic thriller. This is his first novel published in the U.S. It fully lives up to its British press, delivering fast, just this side of out-of-control action, characters at once bizarre and sympathetic, and a cynical take on both sides of the law. When an oceanic research ship is found with not a single member of its crew on board, Sergeant Larry Freeman of the LAPD, sleepwalking through his job after the death of his son, is sprung from his security duties at a shabby B-movie festival and assigned to the case of the missing crew. The trail takes Freeman right through the tangle of the L.A. underworld and into the middle of a terrorist plot, the untangling of which involves dealing with the crazed and confused--and with his own despairing inertia. Excruciating suspense. Connie Fletcher
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3.0étoiles sur 5 A little disappointed, Jui 14 2002
Par Isabella K. Badenoch "izi" (Vientiane, Lao PDR) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Not the End of the World (Hardcover)
I am a big Brookmyre fan and was a little disappointed with his stab at a story set in the US. There Scottish connection is still there, with the main character a Scotsman, but the punch just wasn't there - which really is his trademark. Just read "Quite Ugly One Morning" and you will see. Don't get me wrong, I still liked the book, but it just wasn't up to his usual standard, that's all.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Very Funny, Oct. 19 2001
Par Tom Munro "tomfrombrunswick" (Melbourne, Victoria Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Not the End of the World (Hardcover)
Christopher Brookmyre is an unusual writer. His works are sort of detective fiction, sort of block buster thriller and sort of left wing satire. Until this book all of his books were set in Scotland. His first book quite ugly one morning introduced a new sort of hero, a short sarcastic investigative reporter called Parlabane.

This book is set in Los Angles but one of the main characters is a visiting Scots photographer. The plot is as with his other works somewhat convoluted and ends in a climax which would not be out of place in a Bruce Willis movie. Along the way there is a ferocious satire of Baptist Evangelical Sects and the consumerist aspects of American life.

The main attraction of the book apart from the non stop action is the fact that it is side splittingly funny. Brookmyre is one of the most amusing authors to write mystery fiction. The humour however has a distinctly adult bite to it.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent - in line with his other books, Mai 11 2001
Par F. G. Hamer "MadManxMan" (Isle of Man) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Not the End of the World (Hardcover)
Brookmyre has the killer touch when it comes to exposing the hypocrisy of religious fundamentalism. In 'Not the End of the World', he makes a pretty good meal of the media as well!. His humor is really 'in-your-face' - not passive beach reading as one reviewer believes - and, if you look below the (excellent) storyline, you'll see some remarkably accurate social observations about life in general.

Try and get his other books -'One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night', 'Quite Ugly one Morning' and 'Boiling a Frog' - they're also excellent reads.

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I guess, reading the other reviews, you either love Brookmyre or you hate him! I loved him. Brilliant book, brilliantly written, with more than a touch of black humor. Read more
Publié le Mars 30 2001 par Barry Firth

5.0étoiles sur 5 Loved it -- Top class thriller meets pop culture
I bought this book in London in 1999 for my long flight back to Sydney. Well, I arrived exhausted and even more jet-lagged than usual because I couldn't put it down! Read more
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