The Forensic Records Society

Quirky. Odd. Brilliant.

exactly what i needed to read to get me out of my reading slump. did not expect to love it but i do. goes to show , you have to read a lot of mediocre books to find the special ones.

I love his novels. They are totally original and weird, and this one didn't disappoint , although I am still confused by the ending. Maybe I'll ask my son, who recommended the book, to explain it.

This is a bit too realistic for a Magnus Mills fan who would normally listen to his perfect 3 minute 45s in a reverential silence broken by chuckles. The trouble is that obsessional male nerdy music fans are a bit too familiar territory. 'Emotional retardation' is even signalled .as a possible interpretation - this is also a study of repression as well as of committee shenanigans and parish pump wars, but where is the mystery and poetry? It's certainly not provided by song titles, as we know from Nick Hornby. The main impression is of little boys falling out with each other and being mean to our narrator, and of girlfriends breaking up male friendships.Of course most of it is enjoyable, but I didn't see the point of the Confessionals, or like the ending.

I had fond hopes this was going to get somewhere, but it didn’t.