He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
John Birmingham has lived with eighty-nine people and kept notes on all of them. This is their story.‘A rat died in the room at King Street and we didn't know. There was at least six inches of compacted rubbish between our feet and the floor. Old Ratty must have crawled in there and died of...
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John Birmingham has lived with eighty-nine people and kept notes on all of them. This is their story.‘A rat died in the room at King Street and we didn't know. There was at least six inches of compacted rubbish between our feet and the floor. Old Ratty must have crawled in there and died of pleasure. A visitor uncovered him while groping about for a beer.’‘A very entertaining freak show … an epic of squalor and degradation.’ The Guardian‘One of the funniest books ever.’ Loaded
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781875989218 (1875989218)
ASIN: 1875989218
Publish date: May 15th 2000
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Comedy,
Literature,
Cultural,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Australia,
True Story
Read by Julieanne: Excellent, very funny share housing experiences. TBK is read by Aussie actors including Gretal Killeen and Mikey Robbins.
John Birmingham wrote so much better when he was writing gonzo journalism rather than the sci-fi books that he seems to have written of late, but then again he seems to sell books, and the books that he did write early on pretty much set him up to the point where he could pretty much write what he w...
Hilarious! I had heard about this book while travelling in Australia and doing the whole share house thing. It definately made me feel better about my messy, loud roomates. I do feel though, that some of his stories are a stretch of the truth, but I could be wrong. Maybe it's just wishful thinki...
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