The Book of Dave, by Will Self
I’ve been really bad at posting up books, so just a selection to come, not everything I’ve been reading.
The Book of Dave was excellent. Bizarre, very clever, and slightly disturbing, as to be expected from Will Self. It tells two stories, one of Dave, a London Cabbie with custody issues, and one set in the future, where England has flooded and society follows the rules laid down by Dave. The language, the thinking behind how society might work; it’s all so clever and kept me engaged until the very end.
I’m not a huge fan of Will Self’s short stories, but his novels are different. How The Dead Live was great, and this was even better.