Confessions of a Fallen Angel |
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Ronan O'Brien
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Pages: 336 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 034095244X
Pub: Sceptre
Pub date: 2008-02-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1670
Reader Reviews:
Great book (0/0 people found this helpful)
Just finished the book and I must say it was great! I was sad to finish reading the last page. Not a lot of books grip you the way this does or make you laugh ( more than once I laughed out loud while in a packed luas) at bad situations. Loved it, reminded me a little of Angela's Ashes. Cant wait for the next book!!
Great debut (0/0 people found this helpful)
Gripped me from the beginning. The novel's richness in the little details and peripheral characters drew me in. There are so many great one liners and the humour and warmth is sustained throughout. The style is great. It's so easy to read and it flows so well but there are fantastic subtle touches too. Thoroughly enjoyable, moving and funny.
Beautiful (0/0 people found this helpful)
one of the most enjoyable books i've read,i recommend it to everyone...it's a must read
Yet another 5 stars for a fantastic debut novel (0/0 people found this helpful)
Superbly put together, this book actually had me in tears - the first book to do that since Bragg's Soldier's Return which I read last summer. Early on in the book I could tell it was going to be something brilliant (it is defintitely a talented author to tell you what is going to happen and yet still shock you with how it plays out), and I was not disappointed.
The way O'Brien deftly swings from laugh-out-loud humour to heartbreaking tragedy is a gift rarely shown by seasoned authors, let alone first-timers.
No more plot spoilers here, just buy it now!
Buy it, read it, tell everyone you know to do the same. (1/1 people found this helpful)
I'll confess I felt this book was a bit special from the second I picked it up. For someone like me, who appreciates the aesthetics of a book, it's a gem. I've felt that a lot of the reviews have been misleading, while the afterlife is integral to the story, it's far more about the life we have to lead here and now, however keen we are to escape it. That doesn't mean it's not a thriller in parts, this novel just highlights that the most dramatic things happen to us in this life, a bit of a blow to any thrill-seeking ghost hunters. I read it over the course of one very long train journey and had that wonderful feeling that it could easily have been the narrator sitting opposite me, telling me the story himself. I'd recommend you allow time to throw yourself into this book - you're on the same rollercoaster of emotions that the protagonist is on from the first chapter. I wish more novelists could take a contemporary voice, the grit of life and the sprawling, aching theme of love and achieve this kind of story more often.
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