Roasted ~ Andy Riley
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Synopsis
‘Their names are Karl, Lottie and Nev, and they work in a coffee shop. That’s all you need to know. Actually, you don’t even need to know their names that much; you just need to recognise the sort of people they are - the care-worn balding thirty-year-old, keenly aware he’s on the final lap of his youth, the girl who frets about everything (but food in particular), and the chirpy big-eyed twat with one of those unfortunate faces that you just want to hit …’.
For five years, “Bunny Suicides” author Andy Riley has delighted “Observer” magazine readers with his dark and funny weekly strip - “Roasted“. Now collected together for the first time, here are the ongoing adventures of three wasters in a coffee shop - making an essential guide to the modern world for fans and newcomers alike.
This one was a bit of a late Christmas/birthday treat, and amusing in that in among the gifts I had brought along for my mate and his family, once we had finally managed to syncronise schedules and meet up, was a calender, featuring, Andy Riley’s extremely funny and inspired Bunny Suicides.
As you can imagine it doesn’t take long to read through, and I rationed myself out over a couple of evening to read through it, main character Karl is a fabulous cynic, and the strips occasionally hit a bit too close to home for this mid thirties, cynical bloke!
If you are looking for more Bunny Suicides or Great Lies to Tell Small Kids
then this may not be the book for you, as the style is so different to those works, but it is however just as funny, and if you can see any of yourself in the three main characters, Karl, Lottie & Nev, then you are in for a treat.




