Customer Reviews
Quite Funny This Morning - By: Sam, 29 Apr 2008 
Jack Parlabane is a journalist who seems to find trouble wherever he goes. After fleeing the United States he finds himself crashingin a friend's flatin Edinburgh. Fast asleep he is unable to hear the murder downstairs, therefore, it's not his fault that the next day after locking himself out he is foundin the victim's home trying to jimmy the window. Perhaps being caught by the police for something he did not do will be a blessingin disguise. He is a man with certain talents to uncover dirt where other people refuse to tread. It just so happens that this place is the NHS were the dirt is thicker than most.
`Quite Ugly One Morning' is a crime satire that combines both a good mystery with a biting examination of the NHS. Brookmyre is able to create likable characters & get them to examine real life problems through a comedic lens. The main hero Parlabane is a rogue, but very likable. Through him Brookmyre is able to examine how greed & ignorance is destroying the NHS to the point were you are best off never getting ill. To those not interestedin political activism there is nothing to worry about as despite the subject matter the central theme is a crime thriller. This is a genuinely amusing book that tackles a highbrow subjectin a new & amusing way.
Reading it again - By: Keith F. Pike, 09 Jan 2008 
I recently re-read Christopher Brookmyre's first book & confirmed that this story was as funny & entertaining as I remembered.
A hilarious opening & entertaining reading throughout. I would not recommend it to everyone, but it is one of the few books my son has actually read & enjoyedin the last few years.
Brookmyre deserves greater success. His writing makes me laugh out loud & that does not happen with many writers these days.
The plots are not predictable & the action never flags.
Brilliant.
Hilarious - By: love reading, 04 Nov 2007 Not really my kind of thing but nobody could dispute the humour. I was laughing out loud.
Very funny - By: Telboy, 23 May 2007 Although not quite as tightly plotted as some of Brookmyre's later novels, Quite Ugly One Morning is still a cracking good read, blackly comic & full of wit. Of course, Brookmyre's trademark gruesome violence is muchin evidence but it's all very tongue-in-cheek. Allin all, an excellent read & a good introdction to this write's work.
Amusing but lacking atmosphere or tension - By: Wah Wah Banjo, 27 Feb 2007 
I had heard positive things about Christopher Brookmyre & this book seemed generally well received. So I thought I would give it a try.
My first reaction was that I should have tried Brookmyre before. The opening scene is well written & very amusing. Unfortunately, that's the best part of the book. Christopher Brookmyre is a capable writer & he can be very funny but, on this evidence, he is not good enough at prose or comedy to compensate for bland plotting & weak characterisation. The main characters are simply not real enough to carry interest & seem little more than vehicles for the author's wit. Most significantly, there is a lack of atmosphere or tension.
Not a bad book, but not one I would recommend.
