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Book Review - Blah Blah Black Sheep by Maggie Gibson

July 7th, 2006 by ShaolinTiger at 12:41 PM MYT - 1,781 views

'Blah, Blah Blacksheep' is a helter-skelter ride through one week in your average journalist's life (no, really). Maggie Gibson's latest offering is fluid and full of Irish humour - the perfect comic beach read.

This is another one of those cheapo British trash novels I pick up for around RM5 at Popular/MPH, I always look for these, and 90% of the time I really enjoy them.

I suggest buying a bunch of these everytime you pass through.

It's indeed full of Irish wit, twisting and turning, her editor has a nervous breakdown and is replaced with someone nicer..

Following this she is immediately immersed in the dirty, sweaty world of human trafficking, sweat shops, murder and a nasty little extortionist drug dealer with the wonderfully Irish name of Broylan Grillo.

Somehow she ends up friends with Georgina Fitz-Simons who has has just overcome a flourishing cocaine habit, together they go deep into the world of durgs and murder end up in possession of a rather inconvenient corpse, being chased by a Serbian hitman and involved with an ex Glam rocker..

It's a well written, well paced book. Rather easy to pick up, not hard to put down and can be devoured quickly in a couple of sittings.

If you see it sitting around on the bargain shelf for the price of a drink, do pick it up.

Not much more to say about it, simple book, simple read, simple review.

I give it an enjoyable 6.5/10.

Tags: blah-blah-black-sheep, book-review, books, fiction, literature, maggie-gibson, novels, uk-trash-novels

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8 Comments so far

mrs jeff buckley on July 7th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
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You don't have the reasons to "Trash it" in your review =P
KY on July 7th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
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best price $0.95 shipping $15.00?
stephen on July 8th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
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I havent seen it yet,but i agree with you, some of this books are quite entertaining
Ill get it.
Boss Stewie on July 8th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
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hmmm and i always thought malaysians in general don't do much reading
hmm on July 9th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
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i wish we have amazon malaysia or something. or newegg.
elise on July 11th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
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Hey , some Malaysians read a lot!! It's just that there are always too many of the idiots that don't, driving the statistics down to "The average no. of books read by M'sians per annum is 0.3 or something..."

MPH doesn't sell bks for RM5!! Must have gotten it at Popular, I myself got "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hildenbrand for like RM15. Much better than the movie...
Covert Ops on April 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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Hello there, it's me again. I must confess after reading your review on Pinter's "Homecoming", I had to visit your blog again. I've read a good number of your entries in the course of 2 lunch breaks. I keep coming back here for a chuckle. Thank you for your entertaining and often very edifying blogposts. You are a very talented photographer. I had hoped for more theatre and book reviews but I suppose I shall have to keep myself happy with the few that you have posted here.
Cheers,
Covert Ops.
ShaolinTiger on April 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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Covert Ops: Yeah haven't been reading as much lately, well not fiction anyway - mostly camera books for the last 2 years haha. Glad you enjoyed the archives