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Chargement... Is Harry Still on the Boat?par Colin Butts
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 'If you're into package holidays to party resorts, you'll raise more than a few chuckles at this book ... a good beach novel - you won't need to think too much, so its ideal for the morning after the night before
Ibiza's glorious summer season is beginning, but holiday company Young, Free & Single - made famous by Colin Butts' first novel, IS HARRY ON THE BOAT? - is under threat. Sleazy Tyrone Lucas, disgraced former rep with YF&S, runs their rival, Club Wicked, and would dearly love to bring them down. When dance music megaclub The Monastery decides to expand into travel by acquiring one or other company - spelling disaster for the loser - the battle lines are drawn. YF&S need the experience of veteran rep Greg, but his only interests are the opening party at Space, popping pills and winning the infamous Golden Dick. Unless Greg straightens out, the future of YF&S could be down to how the new reps perform, but with Sloaney Arabella besotted with a Club Wicked rep, Vaz desperate to become a DJ and Hughie infatuated with any girl over a size 18, the initial signs are not good, especially when Club Wicked reveal their new resort manager, an old adversary who gives head to get ahead... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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IS HARRY STILL ON THE BOAT? is about a travel holiday agency on the brink of bankruptcy, the brash rebel account manager who saves the day and who also, perhaps, finds true love in the end. The title, which is Cockney rhyming slang for ejaculating on someone's face, is actually a sequel to [b:Is Harry On The Boat|1357852|Is Harry On The Boat?|Colin Butts|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182966162s/1357852.jpg|1347583]?, which later became a film for ITV and then a serialized drama. Both books have purportedly been reviewed as being incredibly accurate about the holiday travel business and clubbing/electronic music scene in Ibiza.
On one hand, the technicality of the writing wasn't bad - in fact, the technicality of the structure was quite good! I read to find out about what I do not know and I know that from reading interviews with Butts, he knows, and is passionate, this particular territory well - clubbing, holiday reps, and the Ibiza scenes are all facets from Butts' own life. But this is where the book fails - Butts' could not give me anyone to root for or against. The characters, young, wild, and gorgeous should be leaping off the pages but instead they need a hoist to get them onto the next paragraph. They are pensioners disguised as young playthings and it bored me.
It's funny to think a book on drugs, clubbing, sexing, and wild times would be boring - but it was. I gave up after 75 pages, skipped to the end and found that what I knew was going to happen in the beginning, happened in the end. Talk about cliches.
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