Customer Reviews
New Expression - By: New Expression, 22 Apr 2008 
This is a very well written book showing great talent. A few typos got past the editorial process. The language is very bad in a lot of places & that's only from the priest; from the others it is demonic.
That said, I can only be positive about the book with two reservations. Firstly; how could Quinn have the energy to perform strenious exercise whilst in the cage unless he had obtained food somehow; did he leave the cage & buy it from a shop; did he get it from the house; would Sweeny not have noticed in that case; would Sweeny not then have at least put an extra padlock on the cage door?
Secondly: how did Quinn retrieve the key from the sleeping Sweeny's pocket; did he get an extra key cut; were there two keys & he had kept one? The book left alll these questions unanswered.
However, top marks to O'Connor for producing a top class book
Stuck in my mind - By: , 26 Sep 2005 
This is a wonderful read. A super story while highlighting the physche of a lost & lonely alcholic. Actuallly gave up the booze for a bit after reading this. I read this book quite a while back but to this day it lingers in my mind.
Weird - By: , 26 Jan 2004 What a strange book. The first 100 or so pages the book moves along effortless telling the tale of a man & his daughter who is left in a coma following an armed robbery. Interesting , free flowing & reasonably predictably moving the story onwards. Then walllop!! the story takes unexpected turns , one after another. I found this book to be a very interesting read.
Brilliant - By: A. Ross, 27 Nov 2001 Written as a diary, this is a brilliant novel of suspense, love, loneliness, alcoholism, fatherhood, redemption & of course, tragedy. The salesman of the title is a dumpy middle-aged satellite dish salesman who pissed away his family & life as an alcoholic. He's been sober for years, trying to raise his daughter by himself when she is attacked & put into a coma. One of the defendants escapes, & the salesman is left frustrated & angry.When he happens to see the escapee on the street one day he daydreams of revenge. The suspense builds & builds as he follows the criminal & plots his revenge. Interspersed with this is his recounting of meeting his wife & their life together, which he tries to explain to his daughter. Outstanding.
probably the best book ..... ever! - By: , 12 Sep 2000 im only 16 & i cant say im one for reading books. however, i have read a few & i know a good book when i read one, & quite frankly this is the best i have read so far. this book is easy to read with one hell of a plot. its style is amense in itself- its in a letter form. the narrator, Bill Sweeny, has got a dead wife, & another daughter in Australia & another daoghter, Maeve, (his favourite) in a coma. Billy is writing his confessions to Meave for when she wakes.... if she ever does. This book is brilliant & is deffinatly for the people who liked trainspotting & father ted.
