I been reading and highly enjoying his books of late...I read the 69 THINGS book and COME BEFORE CHRIST AND MURDER, I woukld desribe his work as psycho-geographic art-pulp..i love how his potty charatcers just fuck and schiz their way across the urban/rural landscapes of the UK and HOme cross references with all this radical art-movement theroies and history.
In many ways his books tune into the the 'hyperlink' culture of today better than pretty much any novelist going, but the thing I really enjoy is that his books have a real strong narrative rigour to them..He doesn't just write any fucken stream of consiousness fucken bullshit like all those 'trendy' 'transgressive' writers of today, his books have stories, ideas and cracking prose. They're also funny as hell and wander in and out of genres like horror, noir, mystery - he's really doing something post-cyberpunk or even 'slipstream' should be with his clusterfuck of genre.
I guess thats why his books read better now than fucking dated dogshit Irvine Welsh or Dennis Cooper.
In many ways his books tune into the the 'hyperlink' culture of today better than pretty much any novelist going, but the thing I really enjoy is that his books have a real strong narrative rigour to them..He doesn't just write any fucken stream of consiousness fucken bullshit like all those 'trendy' 'transgressive' writers of today, his books have stories, ideas and cracking prose. They're also funny as hell and wander in and out of genres like horror, noir, mystery - he's really doing something post-cyberpunk or even 'slipstream' should be with his clusterfuck of genre.
I guess thats why his books read better now than fucking dated dogshit Irvine Welsh or Dennis Cooper.