5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, or not

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022

I think Simon Carr's books are hilarious, but I'm very open minded about profanity and absurdity. Carr's plots are far fetched, but the action leads to a logical, if somewhat nonsensical, conclusion. His dialogue, in my evaluation, is not dialogue you'd expect to hear, but the dialogue that's going on in someone's mind. It's unfettered. It's uncensored. It's often laugh out loud funny.
Respect....is set 20 years or so in the past when illegal raves were big. Three stoner buddies decide to throw the most massive rave ever on Halloween night. Unfortunately, they choose a remote location that happens to be above the burial ground of a coven of witches who were massacred hundreds of years earlier. The stoners inadvertently set the ghosts of the witches free. Mayhem ensues.

5.0 out of 5 stars Off the wall!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021

One more off the wall novel by Simon Carr. I have read everything he has written I think. I love the satire of the Brits. It is a dry humor that has a slow burn and once you get it – you really get it. Our protagonist believes that everything was better in the 90s. (I might disagree and say it was the 70’s but I get off track here). He wants to be back in the 90s, but forgets that during the 90s he was attacked by ghost witches. It wasn’t all that great being attacked by the witches, but he is sure the rest of the 90’s was the greatest. You got to read it to get it! Carr has a way of taking the most mundane sentence and twisting it and pulling the humor out of it. Ok you get it – I recommend this work by Carr