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by: Robert Rankin
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780552138413
ISBN: 055213841X
Label: Transworld Publishers
Manufacturer: Transworld Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 1992
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Sales Rank: 118522
Studio: Transworld Publishers
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Product Description:
'Outside the sun shines. Buses rumble towards Ealing Broadway and I'm expected to do battle with the powers of darkness. It all seems a little unfair...'
You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten. Or when Archroy's wife swapped his trusty Morris Minor for five magic beans while he was out at the rubber factory.
On the other hand, you could say it all started a lot earlier. Like 450 years ago, when Borgias walked the earth.
Pooley and Ornally, stars of the Brentford Labour Exchange and the Flying Swan, want nothing to do with it, especially if there's a Yankee and a pint of Large in the offing. Pope Alexander VI, last of the Borgias, has other ideas ...
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Not my taste
About a year ago I read my first Robert Rankin book 'The Witches of Chiswick' after seeing it in the library and just being attracted to the title. I absolutely loved it. I never laughed aloud so much from reading a book. I was surprised because I am not usually into this genre. My husband read it after me and fell in love too. I then decided that I wanted to read every single book by R. Rankin.
I bought 'Anti-Pope' and neither me or my husband liked it. He gave up 1/4 through ... Read More
Rating:  - I'd review if I could read it!!!
Order placed October 10, 2005. Two missed estimated time of delivery, and two complaints later -- still not in my possession.
Don't order this book here, You will never receive it. Best of luck!
Rating:  - The Antipope
Unfair judgement of this item!! After a month of waiting Amazon can't ship it or the Book of Ultimate Truth. US Rankin fans beware, this is not necessarily a proper outlet for order.
Rating:  - pooley and omally- England's heroes.
I've been reading Robert Rankin for three years, and I have to say, all the books in the Brentford triangle series are classics! The sheer silliness of his stories just have you in stiches for hours, The Antipoope is a favorite for one reason only. It's a first! It starts everything off, Neville the part-time bar man, the professor, the tramp... This book starts it all and I assure you, you'll never put the book down!
Rating: - Persistently amusing.
This is one of my favorite books. It's the first of the Brentford series. I find the whole series to be comfortable, likable and highly amusing. It helps to have a taste for the surreal. I found the characters to be very likable. They have the carefree attitudes of the characters from Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat or Cannery Row, but they are intelligent and educated. They are not the type one would expect to be called upon to save the world. Essentially Brentford is the world. Should any character temporarily ... Read More
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