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A review by richard_a_b
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton
2.0
I have read a couple of Ben Elton's other works in the past and quite enjoyed them (one was a Big Brother type spoof, the other vicious satire of crap like Pop Idol). And both were better than this one.
The whole story is set over about three hours, but the flashbacks that set the context span about seventeen years. The structure of the book is quite dodgy, the flashbacks would have been better together as the first part of the book.
The characters are wooden and to dimensional, caricatures in fact (especially the background characters such as Peter's Mum and the milkman - what has the author got agains milkmen?!) and the final reveal of General Kent's intention is just bonkers and completely unbelievable, and to top it all off an attempt to give it a happy ending? Mental.
Ben Elton has written some clever, well structured, witty and enjoyable books. This is not one of them.
The whole story is set over about three hours, but the flashbacks that set the context span about seventeen years. The structure of the book is quite dodgy, the flashbacks would have been better together as the first part of the book.
The characters are wooden and to dimensional, caricatures in fact (especially the background characters such as Peter's Mum and the milkman - what has the author got agains milkmen?!) and the final reveal of General Kent's intention is just bonkers and completely unbelievable, and to top it all off an attempt to give it a happy ending? Mental.
Ben Elton has written some clever, well structured, witty and enjoyable books. This is not one of them.