My Elvis Blackout

Author : Simon Crump
Publisher : Galley Beggar Press
ISBN 13 : 0957185316
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Elvis Blackout written by Simon Crump and published by Galley Beggar Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is one of the most abnormal books of all time, and also one of the best... No home is complete without this magnificent book." Dan Rhodes Join the King of Rock and Roll as he wreaks crazy havoc with the Memphis Mafia, murders huge numbers of groupies, destroys televisions, sabotages Led Zeppelin gigs with great big bags of pigs' blood and somehow also breaks your heart. The best book you have never read - but really must. Praise for my Elvis Blackout: "Like an episode of South Park, where just as you get into the story something goes splat, Crump's contorted imagination is alarmingly enjoyable." The Guardian "If I was born with a name like Simon Crump, I would spend the rest of my life trying to get all that anger and resentment out of me by being very rude about other people. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Or something like that. No, I wouldn't even give this a passing thought. When you are a famous person, you are there; you are up for grabs for people to have a go at. I know there are comedians who make fun of me. But, you know, I look at my beautiful family, I look at the house I live in and I look at my fans all over the world, and I look at my career and I think, well it's all based on jealousy and envy and really I don't give a toss." Chris De Burgh This ebook edition comes with a brand new introduction by Jon McGregor and a postscript by the author. It also contains the complete text of one of the best book's written in the past twenty years. First published in 2000, but shamefully overlooked ever since, My Elvis Blackout is a work of genius. Of particularly twisted and unsettling genius, but genius all the same. A book so strange, sick and strange again that you'll often wonder what on earth you're reading. But as you wonder, you'll also marvel. In these 37 short stories, the King of Rock and Roll - "hero and model to teenagers the world over" - joins a choir in order to torture and murder Christians, labours under the delusion that he's a major rock-star (when really he's just an inmate in an asylum who's afraid of potatoes), and kills both Barbara Cartland and Chris De Burgh. And then he does some bad things too. Needless to say, it's very funny - but My Elvis Blackout is more than just a laugh riot. This acerbic take on the cult of Elvis' personality tells plenty of uncomfortable truths about our relationship with celebrity, while Simon Crump writes with astonishing force and power about mortality, human cruelty and the horrors that man inflicts upon his fellow man. It's daft. But it's also profound. And don't think that this is disrespectful to the King, either. Elvis remains a strangely sympathetic (albeit psychotic) character throughout. It's one of the best tributes to his unique genius you can hope to read. Just don't buy it if you're a Chris De Burgh fan...

Author : Simon Crump
Publisher : Galley Beggar Press
ISBN 13 : 1910296333
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neverland written by Simon Crump and published by Galley Beggar Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We follow a thoroughly unreliable narrator Lamar (a former member of the Memphis mafia who has now been employed by Michael Jackson) as he loses his wife, drinks drugged coffee and sleeps for years at a time, gets shot and dies - an event that only seems to incapacitate him in so far as he can no longer smoke his favourite brand of mini-cigars. His employer, meanwhile, takes part in the last great gold rush of 1898, tries to buy a unicorn from Ebay, starts fights in shopping malls with Uri Geller, forces Lisa Marie Presley to play with his lego and attacks a horse. it took three years to put together Neverland, a novel about "Michael Jackson and his loud mouth friend Uri". Three years during which, Simon Crump said, Michael Jackson was "with me at home, at work and in my car. He shared my meals and even some of my dreams." Crump finished the book around 9pm BST on 25 June. The real Michael Jackson was dead less than four hours later.

Author : Janis Jeffries
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783746513
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Book is it Anyway? written by Janis Jeffries and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether. The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light. Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) Number-one Singles written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Crump
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747581819
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight Time written by Simon Crump and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel written by the author of My Elvis Blackout and Monkey's Birthday.

Author : Sheree Homer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620466
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig That Beat! written by Sheree Homer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disc jockey Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll" in the 1950s. Rooted in rockabilly, rhythm and blues, country and western, gospel, and pop, the genre was popularized by performers like Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Rock and roll's originators and revivalists continue to entertain crowds at roots music festivals worldwide. This book presents stories about performers' lives on the road and in the studio, along with the stories behind popular songs. Informative biographical profiles are provided. Artists sharing their experiences include Dale Hawkins, Big Jay McNeely, Ace Cannon, Sleepy LaBeef, Billy Swan, Robin Luke, Rosie Flores and James Intveld. Conway Twitty, Buck Owens and Janis Martin are also featured.

Author : The Team
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783198184
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RoosevElvis written by The Team and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badland to Graceland, the spirits of Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley battle over the soul of Ann, a painfully shy meat-processing plant worker. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain.

Author : Kami Garcia
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 031621020X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbreakable written by Kami Garcia and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL. I never believed in ghosts.Until one tried to kill me. When Kennedy Waters finds her mother dead, she doesn't realize that paranormal forces are responsible--not until mysterious identical twins Jared and Lukas Lockhart break into her room and destroy a deadly spirit sent to kill her. Kennedy learns that her mother's death was no accident, and now she has to take her place in the Legion of the Black Dove--a secret society formed to protect the world from a vengeful demon. A society left in the hands of a misfit group of teens with unique skills: Jared, combat trained, with a temper to match; Lukas, rogue hacker and code breaker; Alara, whose attitude is as powerful as her voodoo protections; and Priest, an engineer capable of making a weapon out of a soda can. As the teens use their individual talents to battle paranormal entities, they earn their rightful places in the Legion--except for Kennedy, who is left wondering if she is truly one of them. Can she stay alive long enough to find out--without losing her heart in the process? Protect Yourself.What you can't see CAN hurt you.

Author : Elizabeth Williams
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468902687
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elvis I Remember written by Elizabeth Williams and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-04-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis, I wish the world really knew you... as I knew you. I remember everything about you: Your laugh, your smile, your shyness, your gentleness, your sincerity, your honesty, your sensitivity, your clumsiness, your temper, your teasing, your eyes and most of all your love. I feel that I loved you more than any other women except your dear mother. You were my soul mate, my friend, and my heart. Although the time we shared together was short, I have no reservations in my mind that it should have been for eternity. Elvis, you were always my inspiration with your blessed understanding of God and His Son. You are my gift from Heaven. I wish the world had really known you... as I knew you.

Author : Simon Crump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905847372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neverland written by Simon Crump and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Simon Crump: "Deliciously obscene and blackly comic. . . . Quentin Tarantino on acid in Graceland. Extraordinary."--The Sunday Times "Like an episode of South Park, where just as you get into the story something goes splat, Crump's contorted imagination is alarmingly enjoyable."--Guardian "Superb."--FHM "There's a lot more to the book than you might think; an undercurrent of despair and depression that leads to an unexpected and thoroughly moving conclusion."The Independent "Simon Crump is a vicious and endearing fellow."Todd McEwen "Crump has a uniquely honest and unflinching vision and he has the talent to tear off the veneer and revel in the insalubrious reality beneath without being gratuitous or heartless. If you have a dark side, Simon Crump will let you see it--but beware, you might not like what you find."--Time Out "Wickedly funny."Uncut "Crump is in total control of his material. His writing is plain, the humor a faded black, the dusting of pathos unobtrusive."Zembla Neverland is Simon Crump's most daring collection yet--surreal, outrageous, and laugh-out-loud funny. Four years in the making (and delivered just hours before Michael Jackson's death), this is a superb piece of writing that transposes the King of Pop into a world of $2,000,000 unicorns bought on eBay, giant whelks, rampaging bodyguards, violence, wonder, mystery, and golf. Outrageous and hilarious, Neverland is nevertheless more than just satire: it is a profound--and profoundly entertaining--fictional exploration of celebrity.