Necrotrivia Vs. Skull

By Jeremy Clarke

This is a first novel by the Canadian Country-Punk star Jeremy Clarke, formerly lead singer with the "Barracudas". Written in the wise-cracking style of the 50s trash detective novel, it is a brutal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0947795294
• ISBN13: 9780947795290
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Fourth Estate Classic House
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

It will knock your socks off!

In my quest for meaning in an absurd world and disaffected society I found my drug of choice to be of the literary kind. And having read a wide range of things from the classics to various manifestos from some brilliant to some not so bright persons, I do say with great confidence and a bit of pie in the sky megalomaniacal madness that Necrotrivia v. Skull is a superbly creative, double-plus funny, and a highly original masterpiece of prose. It should be read by everyone with at least a room temperature IQ as well as the most highly educated. Anyway, in a world consumed with economical verbiage, it is sometimes quite appropriate to buy a book. I highly recommend this great masterpiece by Jeremy Clarke! It will knock your socks off!

Lots of laughs and a great story too.

Its not often that a great story, well written comes along which makes me laugh and laugh. I want more, who is this man Clarke and why is he not a best sellerand where can I get more of his books from. Find it, read it and share it.

ONE OF THE GREAT FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THIS CENTURY

This is basically a tragedy. A tragedy that this book is now out of print, a tragedy that I can't find any other books by this author ANYWHERE,a tragedy that my review is number 1 and not number 111, and a tragedy that the only reason I ever read it was by finding it for about 50p ($1) in a Bargain Book Store. It's also a tragedy that the only reason you'll probably even be reading this review is if you were looking for something else. But enough of that - I would just like to say that this book is a piece of biting satire on a par with 'Catch-22' and says more about the consumerist, mass-marketing 80's and 90's than 'American Psycho'. We see society through the eyes of a first time visitor (an alien) who's entire speech is formed from the sound-bites and advertising slogans that we are bombarded with day-in, day-out. What at first sounds like complete gibberish turns out to be incredibly apt and completely relevant in most of the bizarre situations that he finds himself,from joining the Marketing Company from hell,to promoting an addictive breakfast cereal, with a few dead bodies in between, all the time filling himself with an incredible array of junk food and e-numbers to keep his strength up. This is a hilarious (like all the best satire), thought-provoking and extremely well-written book that even has the confidence to parody itself towards the end, and the fact that it isn't currently a blockbuster film starring John Cusack, Christopher Walken, Harry Dean stanton and Steve Buscemi is, you've guessed it, a tragedy..