Maria Beaumont

Advantages: Really an interesting book
Disadvantages: Really fearfull

...Sparrows are graceful, beautiful, small pets that we all love, but they also are the messengers who lead men in the world of the dead. George Stark: year of birth 1973, year of death 1988, epitaph 'Not a Very Nice Guy'. It seemed only a joke or a stupid idea for a bit of advertising, that of 'bury' George Stark in the cemetary of the country, with a gravestone, to publish a beautiful service on People, one of those services that readers like a lot and that, more than this, should attracts a lot of other possible readers. But Thad Beaumont did not felt so calm that morning, while he was standing with his wife Liz in front of the photographer of People, close to the graveyard, with a spade in a hand and a half-witted smile on his face. No! Goods knows why, but it seemed no more so a great idea..., on the contrary: it seemed quite... Read review

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Advantages: Just as funny and entertaining as the first.
Disadvantages: Too short

...Well my little Bookworms I can only say that when I opened the package from amazon.co.uk I felt a mild stab of disappointment. After the magnificence and dare I say it...length of the first novel this second effort from Matt Beaumont is a puny excuse for a book. The E Before Christmas looks more like a pamphlet then the sequel to Beaumont's debut, at only 128 pages long it feels decidedly flimsy. Still despite this I couldn't wait open it and get started We are again taken back to the Miller Shanks Agency where new CEO Harriet Greenbaum has decided that she wants the Christmas Party to end all Christmas parties. Everyone is still here from the bitchy secretaries to the Coked up creatives as well as some new faces, or e-mails as it were. The format is still the same, and because I had read the first one it was much easier to read. Its... Read review

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Advantages: Great book, easy to read
Disadvantages: None

...Matt Beaumont can’t write. Well, not literally you understand. I mean, this is his third book, and you’re unlikely to get even the one book published if you cannot write. What I mean is that Matt Beaumont seems incapable of writing a normal book in a normal fashion. Take his first book, “e” for example. The entire book is in email format. The whole plot, sub-plot and character description comes via emails that have been sent to, from and around the firm upon which the book is centred. The follow-up, “an e before Christmas” was done the same way and both were enjoyable reads, if a little hard to follow from time to time. Beaumont’s third book, “the book, the film, the t-shirt” follows the same anti-establishment rules of writing. Not that there is even the merest hint of an email here. Instead, each chapter is split... Read review

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