A review by scheu
The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by Will Self

4.0

A bigoted, misogynist bastard of a London cabbie buries his angry manifesto, and 500 years later the book becomes the basis for a new society after the fall of civilization. This was a very interesting book, and Self builds an interesting future world. This is NOT, however, an easy book to read. Present and future chapters alternate, and the Daveists speak in decayed phonetic Cockney English. In fact, I had a lot of trouble with the unfamiliar British slang, although I probably pieced together most of it. (reading Riddley Walker helped!)