The Book of Dave

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• The gospel according to Dave

  The Book of Dave by Will Self 512pp, Viking, £17.99 A whole new future is inflating itself like a fat grape from the side of Dave Rudman's head. Dave's friends went to university, but, craving London "like an identity", he stayed behind, became a cab ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Entirely Selfish, but not quite Swiftian

  The Book of Dave by Will Self Viking £17.99, pp496 Shortly before founding the Church of Scientology, that collection of extraterrestrial postulations favoured by the famous and, some say, vulnerable, L Ron Hubbard is said to have declared: 'The way ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Quite enjoyed some of the uses of language (hard now not to think of the sun as the 'foglamp') but didn't find the underlying premise very convincing.

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• English Books
• Paperback 512 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141014547
• ISBN-13: 9780141014548
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Mar 01, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others

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