| Eleven | 
 enlarge | Author: David Llewellyn
Publisher: Seren Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 188630
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 130
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1854114158
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781854114150
ASIN: 1854114158
Publication Date: May 23, 2006
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11 out of 10 November 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I felt obliged to buy this book after meeting the author for a drink (or eleven).
Eleven centres around Martin Davies, a process accountant and would be author and his world of gossipy e-mails, jokes, social calender planning and sometimes the odd bit of work. Martin hates his job, misses his ex-girlfriend and basically finds his life a bit meaningless. And then on September 11, 2001 people start flying planes into New York Tower Blocks.
Eleven is a very entertaining, laugh out loud, debut novel and i thoroughly enjoyed it. I urge you to buy your copy today (or eleven and then give one to all your mates).
superb, unique and gripping May 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was recommended this book by a friend. It is a superb, unique and gripped me from start to finish. The email format that the novel is related in works very well. The emotional breakdown of the narrator coupled with the occurrence of the 9/11 attack was artfully done.
Shocking, funny, disturbing, and true February 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must admit I groaned when I first read the blurb on the back of 'Eleven' by David Llewellyn. Another person trying to cash in on 9/11, I thought. I couldn't have been further from the truth. 'Eleven' is indeed set on 9/11, but the global events of that day happen at arms length, reported to the main character, Martin, by his friends. Each friend seems to offer a different angle on the event, from Lloyd, who is irreverent, crass, and often in extremely poor taste, to Dan, who is the only person who seems to grasp the enormity of the situation.
'Eleven' is an often very funny book; I laughed out loud on a number of occasions; but it quickly develops (and by quick I mean QUICK) into something much darker and more unsettling. None of the reviews I've read so far seem to mention the apparent existentialist and absurdist subtexts that are at work (at one point Martin emails God asking him "Why", only to have his email returned saying 'Address Unknown') in this book. It starts off light and frothy, brimming with office gossip, but by the end of the novel souls have been laid bare. This is not just a biting comedy about office politics, and it's not just a cash in. Without giving too much away, the ending explodes the claustrophobic events of the novel out into the bigger picture, so that the reader is invited to consider that day as a whole. As Martin himself says at one point in the novel, "This is everything."
Small but perfectly formed June 18, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just like, say, Sandi Toksvig, this book is tiny - you can finish it in a day for sure - but there's a lot to it. It is very hard to put down, and it's got nothing to do with gravitational pull, simply the skilled writing and subject matter involved. This has been listed as WH Smith's book of the month for June in Wales, and rightly so. If only more people knew of this man's talent. Hoping there's plenty more to come.
Add to address book May 1, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I challenge anyone. Make sure that you've got a couple of hours to spare. Start reading Eleven by David Llewellyn and then try to stop reading it before you've reached the end. Try it and kiss goodbye to your day. This book is funny, sad and shaming. You know these characters. And the chances are that you are one of them.
I've never even been to Bristol ok?.
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