“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.” – Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian
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" And, given that THE BIG O is a fourth-rate rip-off of Mr Lennox / Leonard’s style,"
Criminy, do you mean the Leonard also has a gun in the plot? Thanks for ruining it for me.
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Erm, sorry Peter. At the risk of further spoiling it for you, KILLSHOT may also feature a man holding said gun, possibly in a threatening fashion. Cheers, Dec
GV,where do you find your elves? All of the ones I have employed talk like they just escaped from a Tolkien book. I want some that say "Peace out" like yours do. :(
By the way, I think your cover is waaaaay cooler. It incorporates the graphic much better than just slapping it onto a cover.
You used a spell checker?
Oh, I get it. Irony?
Josh - What you gotta do is, breed out the imperfections. You want to mate an Oompa-Loompa with a Hobbit, then select for the recessive midgetness gene. Et voila, CAP elves. Ms Witch? A man walks into a bar. He says, 'Oooof!' It was an irony bar, see ... Cheers, Dec
Dagnabbit. Josh said what I was going to say. I mean about the cover, not the elves. I know nothing of elves. Or pixies, for that matter.
The U.S. cover is WAY better looking than the original publication. I can't wait to get one!
AND it's much more clever and relevant as the end of the barrel is part of the title. It's what Elmore Leonard WISHES his could be. But isn't. And so on, and so forth.
pssst... Diane? He's not giving anything away in this thread...
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