Product Description

Scott Spectrum, Head Script Writer, Science Fiction Channel, is being haunted by a ghost giraffe called Jim. Scott thinks he is the man who has everything - high speed Internet connection, hitech armchair, alien shaped slipper, a beautiful wife called Continence...But according to Jim, Scott's days are numbered. Jim is on a mission to save Scott from certain death by sexual repression. He hasn't touched Continence for years and she's left furiously polishing the sideboard, dreaming of black stallions. To save himself, Scott must perform every sex act in the lovemaker's lexicon. Jim Giraffe knows all about sex. He also love pizza and beer and breath that smells of tree tops. The prudish Scott is at first shocked by his perverted foul-mouthed yellow and blue saviour. But he accepts Jim's help and comes to see him as his best friend. Little does he realise that the ghost giraffe has his own agenda and that his suburban idyll is about to be turned upside down.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146906 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
`absolutely brilliant. Witty, blunt, brutally honest...prose is brilliant'
--Savidge Reads

The Daily Telegraph
‘A sharp, funny, exquisitely well written novel.’

The Times
'King's smutty, surreal picaresque provides the missing, and heretofore unsought, link between Carry On and Monty Python'

Customer Reviews

the funniest book i've ever read
Jim Giraffe is one of the best characters I have ever had the pleasure of reading about.Well, of course he is, afterall, he's a sex-obsessed ghost giraffe who drinks too much - what more could you ask for?
I read this book in about 5 hours as I found it practically impossible to put down. I haven't read King's first novel but it has gone straight to the top of my wishlist. I've never laughed so much while reading a book and would highly recommend this to anyone with a sense of humour.

Funniest book I've ever read
If the "ghost giraffe" idea/concept was the funniest in this book, it would be a load of crap. But the fact that Jim is a ghost giraffe isn't really the point. This is a novel about two "friends" who secretly hate and envy each other, and the way that they constantly try to put the other down. Jim Giraffe could have been Jim Human, and this would still be the most hilarious book I've ever read.

Mad Genius
This book is surreal, touching and very very funny. Daren King has a lovely touch with language; with words and phrases being repeated and inverted until the meaning is twisted out of them and all you're left with is a smile. Liberal use of alliteration and assonance keeps the story bouncing along and gives it an almost poetic feel and I for one found it very hard to put down.

True, the story doesn't make perfect sense, but if you can live with that, you should definitely give this book a try.