The Book of Dave

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Weird and wonderful, this tale starts as two disparate threads of narrative, seemingly nothing connecting save the odd word or concept here or there. When she’s not writing she is usually reading, dreaming about living on a boat or eating Jaffa Cakes.

Effectively, the Book of Dave is a written document by a London cab driver with high rage levels and a mental illness, which was taken out of context and used to form a new religion, with hilarious (and tragic) consequences. After I went through a brilliant comic monologue describing all the dogs I had seen that day ("This big, gray. While the contemporary passages conform to reader expectations of style and syntax, albeit of a literary fiction type, Self renders the future speech of Ing in a ferociously phonetic form of cockney speech patterns and accents. Putting these two subjective points aside (explained in the full review), The Book of Dave is a wickedly clever satirical novel that presents a humane and fallible protagonist (Dave) in a funny, albeit sometime depressing, vision of our possible future.Arriving at Leeds Polytechnic to study Fine Art, the very first person he spoke to was a fellow student named Marc Almond; the musical stars were aligned. This is why her books are so recommended and stretch across the market from fans of literary fiction to those who love commercial genres.

Syz loses his friends and meets strange characters who send him on a quest to uncover the real truth behind Dave.

This is the first in an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing.