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The Book of Dave

By: Will Self
Narrated by: Will Self
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What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead, and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a mistake?

Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future, in which England is terribly altered, The Book of Dave is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing, and vilifying who and what we think we are.

©2006 Will Self (P)2010 WF Howes Ltd Dystopian Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Emotionally Gripping
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I didn't know what to expect from this book, but it delivered so much, by way of pitch-dark humour, social observation, character study, but above all a prose that is staggering in its ambition, both in describing the very low and abject, to moments of excruciating tenderness and compassion.

rich, fearless language

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Will Self reads and this is a real treat. The book is one that shaped my thought and reverberated threateningly over the months that followed...

A fantastic book...

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The author has created a dystopian future based around "the knowledge". With its own language, I found it very hard to follow a story that jumps around a lot.
Through dogged determination and little else in the way of interest, I managed to finish this tome, but it was a struggle.

A long and winding cab journey.

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I had read half the book on paper and was struggling with the difficult dialect/kanguage etc. Self reads it beautifully and the story was easier to follow this way I think.

it's so thought provoking and the stories leave you feeling fulfilled yet asking more questions.

left with a lot to think about.

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I enjoyed that, but it was a bit difficult at times, not something I shall be picking up again.

Intriguing

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