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A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away

By: Chris Brookmyre
Narrated by: Steve Worsley
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Back when they were students Simon and his friend Ray had dreams to become rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast and they're having to accept a less glamorous life. Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody finds their own way of coping. But for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.©2001 Christopher Brookmyre (P)2015 W.F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Witty Crime
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Thought this was interesting with a lot of background on the main characters. It caught me out a couple of times when I thought it was going to get predictable, but it didn’t.

A good in depth story

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For anyone into a mind bending fast paced listen, this is for you. Especially if you are scottish... the language and narration is hilarious!

Brilliant

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I loved this book .The sarcasm,intolerance and use of language had me laughing whilst the storyline kept me engaged to the end .
Narrator was a pleasure to listen to .
I definitely recommend this book

A big boy did it

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disappointed to hear Rank Bajin pronounced Bajeen. it's Bad yin. Bud Neill turning in his grave. other than that it's unbeatable vintage Christopher Brookmyre.

Brilliant. but....

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I was reluctant to pick up the audiobook for this one. I found the book really engaging and the characters so well written with hilarious dialogue in scottish-twitter speak, before that was even a thing.

Fortunately the narrator does an awesome job reading it - there's not much change in voice from character to character, which you'd find in most novels, but I feel this works really well here. Basically the accents and cadence are where the comedy is at. It might work better for me as I have a very vivid memory of reading this book myself, multiple times.

While this is a funny book the thing that makes me love it more than most of Brookmyres work is the care he took to bring to the fore-front the suffering and pointless loss of life associated with terrorist attacks. I love rhat he spends quite a bit of time on that, that he makes the people relatable, imperfect, human - before carrying on with the plot. In what is an overall romp of a book, having that quiet time to reflect on the horror of the subject matter points to a thoughtful author.

Love this book series

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