DANNY Volume One
Chancery Stone. (1014 pages)
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"You'll be aroused, disgusted, horrified and everything else in between. Any writer who can inspire such a gamut of emotions is skilled: think Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho with more heart and you'll have an idea of what you're dealing with. Not one for the the faint - hearted, but if you get off on scenes of man - on - man action you'll probably want a copy next to your bed." - Scarlet Magazine
"DANNY is the future of the modern novel. Why else would it have such a love / hate readership? DANNY cuts away the bullshit of conventional 'literary' novels. It's a story for people who like movies. It reads like a movie, as if it doesn't know that it's supposed to be anything else. DANNY has cut its own groove. Its prose has been stripped bare, it doesn't indulge in the luxury of showing off its word play, there are no pretty metaphors or complex references to show you how clever or how well-read the author is.
It's like a speed reading course of the whole of English literature. We have Seneca, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Kidd, Ford, Webster, Middleton, Bronte, Radcliffe, Huxley, Lee and Updike all rolled into one. All the key elements of tragedy are here, as are doomed loved and obsession, greed, jealousy and anger.
It's like junk food. You want to cram it all in. It revolts you. It turns you on. It turns you on when you know it should revolt you. And it just keeps on going. There is no respite. It's like reading a book about an alcoholic and drinlking four bottles of meths while you read it. " - Val, Live Journal
"DANNY is a ridiculously readable book. Every time I read it I still don't want to put it down. I even find myself reaching for it half way through other books if I find them lulling in interest. And, for me, compared to DANNY most books do. I now measure a book's worth on how many times I reach for DANNY during reading. (Look up obsession and you may see a picture of me)." - Jodie Rhodes, Hope House Farm, the DANNY Discussion Forum
"At first glance DANNY seems to be a throw-back to the Victorian novel with its thousand-page length and wealth of character detail but on careful reading it is the definitive product of the twenty-first century. The prose is sparse and word-processed to find and remove all superfluous adverbs and its real-time narrative is reminiscent of the insomniac watching Big Brother in the small hours, sifting through chance conversations to glean small insights into the motivations of the characters. A classic." - Val, Hope House Farm, the DANNY Discussion Forum
"It is explicit and entirely uncensored; it observes no boundaries or limits. Reading it is intoxicating, addictive. Even when I was hating it (which was often), I was completely in its thrall. DANNY is endlessly fascinating." - Reader Review, Live Journal
"I couldn't put it down. It feels like I ran out of methadone and I'm sweating and swearing and throwing things. Chancery Stone is fucking brilliant. Fucking brilliant. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." - Reader Review, Live Journal
