I picked up 5 novels by Robert Rankin, The Brentford trilogy, funny, quirky humour very enjoyable so far.
A little like Carl Hiaasen?
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Robert Rankin novels.
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Very funny guy. I've read them loads of times.
The Armageddon series are also worth a read, they're a bit weird but very funny also. Characters include Elvis, The Dahli Dan and a time traveling brussel sprout called Barry.
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I found that 'The hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse' was great, although that could have been because I was stuck in the middle of Iceland on fieldwork and was going slightly mad... and the armageddon trilogy is great too - especially Barry.
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Brentford is awesome. I've got the original of one of his poems too. I inadvertently pinched it off him at a signing, I may send it back one day, if he agrees to give me a part in one of his books...
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brilliant. I've been rereading him recently. Particularly love the Brentford triangle books
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yeeeaaah... my mate keeps trying to persuade me to go and watch a Brentford footie match or join him on a guided tour of Brentford organised by the good folk at sproutlore...
I'm not keen..
the books are pretty amusing though I guess..(I think I should probably add it's a ratio of 37654:1 the mate in question asks me to drink cider with him rather than go on strange fanboy conventions)
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Any of you guys read Carl Hiaasen? You won't be disappointed, they're just as funny and quirky.
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Big fan of RR, got all his books, including a couple of signed copies. One says "this is the first one of these I've ever signed" which is rather cool.
Couple of years back I went to a signing and at the end there was about half a dozen people left, he went "right, I'm off to the pub, who's coming?" and we ended up spending a couple of hours in the pub with Rankin, listening to him talk crap for a couple of hours.
Well worth going to see if you get the opportunity, very entertaining bloke.
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The explanation of his father's funeral had me crying tears of laughter. It was in the Sproutlore magazine, but I've lost my original copy. Would love to find/read it again.
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You just have to love Robert Rankin. It's a tradition or an old charter or something...
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