He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Ratings5
Average rating3.9
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Ratings5
Average rating3.9
Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who’s been there. Birmingham pulls no punches: from dead rats in the kitchen to tent-dwelling lodgers in the living room, you’ll run for the safety of living alone.
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So awesome, a short, largely disjointed non fiction of the sharehouse life. The way Birmingham incorporates his own and others real stories what roomates are like is innovative and interesting, although it's irrelevance to the main story does tend to take you out of the flow.
I did find it hard to figure out whether to read a full chapter before reading the little sticky note anthologies or to stop and start each page but it's inclusion was 100% necessary to further examine the full sharehouse experience.
Very fun, had watched the movie beforehand which helped to see the general arch of the storyline than jumped around but being a nonfiction work, the plot had less of a need to be particularly coherent
The writing style is fantastic and aggressively Australian. I compare Birmingham to an Australian version of Irvine Welsh or Chuck Palahniuk.
A smashing read overall!
