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.Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

October 01, 2007

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.Aberystwyth Mon Amour

by: Malcolm Pryce

May 06, 2002
I was reluctant to read this book, I'll readily admit it. I'd been passing it by in bookshops for a few years, amused by the title but predisposed to see it as nothing more than silly gibberish. However, after my fiancee started reading Jasper Fforde and I followed accordingly, I decided to give this a try. It's far more subtle than Fforde, not better or worse, but different. Following the first person narrative conventions of Chandler and Hammett's excellent stories whilst simultaneously offering a ludicrously skewed view of life in a British seaside town thats rather past it's best. I was five chapters in before I realised just how good a writer Pryce is. Can't wait to read Louie Knight's further adventures!
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.Last Tango in Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

May 31, 2004
Even better than Aberystwyth Mon Amour. It made me laugh out loud in a few places and I am looking forward to reading the next in the series.
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.The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

April 03, 2006
The Unbearable lightness of being in Aberystwyth is a parody of Raymond Chandler mysteries. The twist is that it's set in Wales. At first, the play on the style is enjoyable but any pleasure in Pryce's silliness quickly disappears due to the gore and sadness of the story. Plot lines including infanticide, rape of prostitutes, and human slavery take away any fun that the idea of a noir tale in Wales might have held. This style of story is done so much better by Jasper Fforde in his novels set in an alternative Swindon. Fforde is able to keep up a mystery without sinking his playful characters in tragedy or gore.

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.With Madog to the New World

by: Malcolm Pryce

April 02, 2005
The Unbearable lightness of being in Aberystwyth is a parody of Raymond Chandler mysteries. The twist is that it's set in Wales. At first, the play on the style is enjoyable but any pleasure in Pryce's silliness quickly disappears due to the gore and sadness of the story. Plot lines including infanticide, rape of prostitutes, and human slavery take away any fun that the idea of a noir tale in Wales might have held. This style of story is done so much better by Jasper Fforde in his novels set in an alternative Swindon. Fforde is able to keep up a mystery without sinking his playful characters in tragedy or gore.

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.Last Tango in Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

August 18, 2003
Even better than Aberystwyth Mon Amour. It made me laugh out loud in a few places and I am looking forward to reading the next in the series.
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.Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

April 02, 2007
These books are funny in a League of Gentlemen type way, deeply disturbing, macabre and with a strong vein of tragedy through them all. The quality of the writing is excellent. The creation of a fabulously fictitious world based in our reality is much like Jasper Fforde, but Pryce's work is darker and his style is more sparse and philosophical. Having lived in Lampeter, which gets a mention in the books more than once and knowing the area very well it heightens the comedic aspects more than if you didn't know where these places where and what they are like for real. Having said that, the books are still rich and rewarding within themselves. Louie is a strong character who has that wonderful gumshoe quality which makes him so appealingly retro and ... Read More:
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.A Dragon to Agincourt

by: Malcolm Pryce

July 28, 2003
Seeing mainly through the eyes of Hew Gethin, a Welsh soldier who joins Owain Glyndwr in his battles against Henry IV and then Henry V, aswell as telling his own tale of family life, and his attempts to adapt to life as a soldier aswell as tragedy in his own family and his attempts to avenge his losses (he is prepared to go to France to take vengeance). Aswell as the story being thrilling, the way it is written makes it almost impossible to convince myself it did not come from the era it is set in, with the language and style being so convincingly not from this era, but the era of Glyndwr. A most interesting read, although I think that it is probably less appealing to those who aren't of Welsh Origin. Great Buy!
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.The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth

by: Malcolm Pryce

April 04, 2005
The Unbearable lightness of being in Aberystwyth is a parody of Raymond Chandler mysteries. The twist is that it's set in Wales. At first, the play on the style is enjoyable but any pleasure in Pryce's silliness quickly disappears due to the gore and sadness of the story. Plot lines including infanticide, rape of prostitutes, and human slavery take away any fun that the idea of a noir tale in Wales might have held. This style of story is done so much better by Jasper Fforde in his novels set in an alternative Swindon. Fforde is able to keep up a mystery without sinking his playful characters in tragedy or gore.

Aberystwyth will disappoint any reader. For serious mystery fan, the goofiness of the characters - organ grinders and monkey, ice-cream ... Read More:
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.Aberystwyth Mon Amour

by: Malcolm Pryce

May 08, 2001
I was reluctant to read this book, I'll readily admit it. I'd been passing it by in bookshops for a few years, amused by the title but predisposed to see it as nothing more than silly gibberish. However, after my fiancee started reading Jasper Fforde and I followed accordingly, I decided to give this a try. It's far more subtle than Fforde, not better or worse, but different. Following the first person narrative conventions of Chandler and Hammett's excellent stories whilst simultaneously offering a ludicrously skewed view of life in a British seaside town thats rather past it's best. I was five chapters in before I realised just how good a writer Pryce is. Can't wait to read Louie Knight's further adventures!
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