Scarlett Thomas

Advantages: original plotline
Disadvantages: boring,badly written,waste of money

...***About the Author *** Name: Scarlett Thomas Born in the year: 1972 Born in : London Scarlett has been included in the top 20 female writers in the year 2001.She has also won an Elle Style Award for her novel 'Going Out'. When she was younger she spent a lot of time demonstrating against things such as Poll Tax and the first Gulf War. *** Bright Young Things *** When the 'Media Guardian' prints a mysterious job advertisement stating 'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project', six twenty-somethings decide that they could do with a new challenge. Their lives are going nowhere; they're either unemployed or stuck in dead end jobs, so they apply to the advertisement without delay. They attend an interview just like you would with any other job, only with this one, they can't remember much of it. For one minute they are sitting... Read review

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Advantages: Simply a great read
Disadvantages: .

...– and didn’t stop until the last delightful page was finished. At 342 pages it isn’t very long, because the writing is large and the chapters short. Thomas writes at such a pace though, that it’s always a case of I wonder…and you’re onto the next one without noticing. So what of Scarlett Thomas? Well, she was born in 1972 in London, or so the jacket blurb says. This is her 4th book, the previous ones are – Dead Clever, In Your Face and Seaside. The book cover is strangely short on platitudes from newspaper book reviewers, although she does have a section for this on her website. Is this out of a serene security in her abilities, scorn for the hacks per se, or a subtler disappointment that whilst they praise her writing, they seem to concentrate on the fact that she has nailed the zeitgeist of Twenty... Read review

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Advantages: Entertaining
Disadvantages: you never find out why?

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