Coffin Dodgers edition by Gary Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks
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"A no-holds-barred thriller plot with a sense of the ridiculous, lacing nastiness with some delightfully black comedy" - The Big Issue Scotland
"You really can't afford to miss out on this" - Ray Banks, author of Sucker Punch and Beast of Burden
Coffin Dodgers is a fast, funny and fat-free thriller that's been compared to Christopher Brookmyre, Colin Bateman, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen and the films Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.
Eighty is the new thirty. Nobody's having babies, the old massively outnumber the young and the hip crowd has become the hip replacement crowd. Twentysomething barman Matt Johnson would be bored senseless if someone wasn't trying to kill him.
When Matt isn't playing silly pranks on his elders with his colleague Dave or laughing at Dave's dating disasters, he's trying to summon up the courage to ask best friend Amy out on a date. Then Matt narrowly escapes a car wreck, and he discovers that his accident was no accident. Someone's murdering young people, and dozens are already dead. Can Matt, Amy and Dave stop the killings? The answer involves guns, gangsters, an angry bear and plenty of irate pensioners.
Coffin Dodgers edition by Gary Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks
For only a $1.29, its well worth the money and time to read.This is a Sf-nal thriller that borrows from The Children of Men and Halting State (Ace Science Fiction), with significant dashes of Chris Brookmyre and Carl Hiaasen. With this set of characteristics, I've either intrigued you or scared you off.
The premise is that something has stopped human fertility from naturally occurring. But IVF does work. And two of our protagonists (Dave and Matt) are IVF kids. The demographic changes are staggering, and I suspect would be fascinating to explore further. Still, its an odd mix of US and UK in the setting and might have been better served by more clearly drawing from one source or the other. Specifically, armed police and regular police being armed.
Still, its a good book. I enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed the characters, though I suspect I'd have been more like Comedy Jim in the book than our fun loving bunch.
Look, go out and buy this book. Read it and enjoy it. The interesting characters outweigh the odd bits of world building and make it worthwhile.
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Coffin Dodgers edition by Gary Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Bought on on a whim. It started off a bit slow, but caught my attention & I ended up quite enjoying.
Mystery story set in the not to distant future, where older people greatly out number younger people, and someone is killing younger people.
Pretty funny, very entertaining, but not much mystery (most readers, and all mystery buffs, will solve the mystery long before the protagonist realizes that there is a mystery, and much humor comes from this). The book's chase scenes were its weakest parts (it's not a thriller, but not quite farce). This novel brings a very fresh perspective to the sci-fi/speculative fiction concept of "massive infertility," which is normally such a buzzkill topic and subgenre.
I will definitely look for future works by this author. As I read this novel, I kept thinking that this author's style might adapt well to the stage.
I was immediately drawn into this fun and quirky novel when, a few pages in, the first-person narration addressed me directly and offered to show me around the casino. I thought it was a bit weird, but soon started enjoying it, and I found the premise of a future-world filled with old people intriguing.
There were some hilariously funny parts in this book. Here's my favorite "You know those old hand-cranked air raid sirens? Imagine one of them being forcibly inserted into a cat's ar*e inside a dustbin that's being beaten with baseball bats. It sounded like that, but worse."
Gary Marshall has an easy writing style which I enjoyed, but I have to say that, for me, the plot only just held together. I spent a while wondering why [***spoiler***] the bad guys left our heroes alone, when I was expecting them to hunt them down and kill them. And also why the cops didn't go after the bad guys when one of their own gets killed. [***spoiler ends***]
The banter between the three main characters is very entertaining, but a large portion of this book is dedicated to buying and drinking beer. I guess in a way this helps to illustrate a world in which there is nothing for young people to do, but it also makes for a lack of action.
Now that all of my criticisms are out of the way, let me say this is definitely a worthwhile read and is very entertaining. It was Mr. Marshall's comedy that kept me reading and enjoying this book, and is why I'm giving it four stars. I will definitely read other books from this author. Highly recommended.
Interesting, silly, quick read which on one hand - was humorous and far-fetched. On the other hand, old folks living beyond their reasonable life span (100 years should do it) described in some very unflattering terms may, unfortunately be closer to the truth. This is not a "read" for the sensitive older person that does want to hear about the infirmaries of old age, like Depends. and false teeth.
With a distinctly British sense of humour, the author weaves an action/sci-fi adventure with a deft hand. The characters are well developed, funny, and great examples of what friends should be. I enjoyed this little ditty.
This was a terrible read and I really wonder about the positive reviews it has gotten. I think someone may have gotten all his mates to review... Everything about this book was underdeveloped.
The main character is also the narrator. Most of the action occurs around him and his two friends, who stick together through thick and thin. But the reader never finds out anything about him that makes you understand why his friends would be friends with him and why they are all so loyal. And his friends are equally shallow. Although the girl (and love interest) is described as fantastic, she never does or says anything that would make you understand why she is fantastic.
The world seems to be occupied by only 7 main characters and they all remain flat as a pancake. It leaves the story feeling empty and sparsely populated.
The 'hilarious dialogue' consists of a few one liners in the conversation between the main characters. They are good, but often feel forced into the situation. It also becomes quite predictable.
The book starts off with a premise about a lack of young people in the world due to some sort of mishap, potentially an interesting situation. However it then completely fails to follow through on this in its description of the world the characters live in, other than the lack of young peoplle being a motivation in the main story line. Everything else about the world still seems to work the same...
So, an interesting premise for a book, and it could have been good, if an editor had ever looked at it and worked with the author.
For only a $1.29, its well worth the money and time to read.
This is a Sf-nal thriller that borrows from The Children of Men and Halting State (Ace Science Fiction), with significant dashes of Chris Brookmyre and Carl Hiaasen. With this set of characteristics, I've either intrigued you or scared you off.
The premise is that something has stopped human fertility from naturally occurring. But IVF does work. And two of our protagonists (Dave and Matt) are IVF kids. The demographic changes are staggering, and I suspect would be fascinating to explore further. Still, its an odd mix of US and UK in the setting and might have been better served by more clearly drawing from one source or the other. Specifically, armed police and regular police being armed.
Still, its a good book. I enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed the characters, though I suspect I'd have been more like Comedy Jim in the book than our fun loving bunch.
Look, go out and buy this book. Read it and enjoy it. The interesting characters outweigh the odd bits of world building and make it worthwhile.
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