I hated this book. I love a good autobiography but this was just pure shit. It is obvious that Boyle is the most unreliable narrator that ever lived, and this is normally an interesting technique to use in fiction, but not a book that is packaged as an autobiography. I grew tired of trying to del...
This could and should have been good, the few flashes of political and social observation are great. But it all rather gets obscured by this essentially becoming an extended retelling of The Aristocrats. Which is all well and good, that gag has it's place, but I found it diluted the books message...
Knowing the blunt speech of Frankie Boyle, I had an inkling of what I was letting myself in for. However, I found it pretentious, boring and a need for popularity. He always has to go one step too far, just as you begin to think he isn't so bad. I read the first three chapters and then skipped to...