Product Description

Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves: including fictional diaries, modern fables and mysterious ramblings, this text is a surreal journey packed with visual style and eclectic ideas. It also includes never-seen-before paintings and drawings by the author.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #313350 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
New Year's Day, 1999. Vic Reeves wakes up to discover a flock of seven white doves of peace flying around his bedroom, "casting a Disneylike sense of well-being about." However, all is not well; Vic re- awakens several hours later to discover that the doves have stolen his prized bust of Caligula: "a foreboding sense of gloom now hangs over the home". So begins Vic Reeves' Sunboiled Onions, a fictional diary packed with Vic's own paintings and drawings of a month in the mind of one of the UK's most popular comedians.

Like his TV series with sidekick Bob Mortimer, Sunboiled Onions has a surreal menace in its humour, reflected in Vic's weird drawings of famous figures, which are often uncannily accurate yet strangely disconcerting with their eyes drawn too far apart. Elvis crops up throughout the book, appearing as Sir Walter Raleigh in King Lear (naked from the waist down, of course), buying fan heaters from Argos with Frank Sinatra and ironing his slacks in his bucolic cottage. Alongside such reveries, Vic deals with the problems of his everyday life: "January 10--Flies swarm around the pork in my attic, so I get rid of it, all 150 lbs of it, in a ditch near B&Q". Along the way, Vic muses on various celebrities and their foibles, including Michael Jackson, Abba, Henry VIII, Eric Morecombe and Richard Nixon. Those who love Reeves and Mortimer will celebrate Sunboiled Onions as another manifestation of the genius of the man they call the Darlington Dadaist. --Jerry Brotton

Customer Reviews

Surrealist humour of the highest order.
If you've seen Reeves on TV, and are wondering what Sun Boiled Onions will be like, then prepare for a most bizarre experience, filled with the kind of surrealist comedy which makes the likes of Shooting Stars appear almost normal.

If you find Vics style to your liking then you will certainly not be disappointed with this book, typical examples of what to expect including mistaking a spoon for a rat, and a building brick for the singer Blondie. If you brain can handle it, then you will love this book and return to it again and again to ponder exactly how the mind of Vic Reeves works.

His various pictures and painting are also fantastic, combining an obvious talent with his amazing sense of humour.

Alas, if you are not a fan of Vic Reeves, or you do not find this type of surrealist comedy appealing, then you probably won't grasp what it is that makes Sun Boiled Onions so hillarious. For those who enjoy something that little bit different (or should that be completely and utterly wacky?) then this book will have you in stiches, every time you read it.

Briliant.
"Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves" And what a wonderful world it is. A rare opportunity to step into the mind of a true genius, the book is filled with spectacular art and wonderful stories, sucking the reader into a better,funnier,much more intersting world. Vic is truly a unique and incredible man,and this book is the best one i have read in awhile. Very recommanded.

'Sunboiled Onions' is the funniest book I've ever read.
'Sunboiled Onions' is a very good book to read because his pictures are both clear to understand and funny. Vic Reeves draws a picture of something like the tudor, and half of him is a vacuum cleaner, he has made this picture funny because he has drawn a picture of fiction and non-fiction combined into one, and he also draws his pictures large and bold with not much else around it. The diary part of the book also made me laugh because of the way he wrote his diary. It was as if he was in a different world because he wrote it with humour and reality. I enjoyed this book so much that I couldn't stop reading it.