Christmas jingles making you feel murderous? We may have just the book for you…
In James Goss’ Haterz, the protagonist does what many of us have dreamed of doing on our darkest days: carving a bloody swathe through half the population of the internet.
This particular slice of midnight-black comedy is now on offer in the Kindle store for only 99p. We suggest you go and grab it now – or there will be consequences…
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Fifteen days into Advent, and only ten days to Christmas. In the North Pole, elf and reindeer alike wishes for an end to the Santa War, but none is in sight.
Santa has retreated into himself, a shell of the mighty red overlord he once was. In the west, Rudolfite troops wielding rolls of wrapping paper with star-shaped Christmas Tree toppers on the end push back loyalist elves. The mince pie mines are unproductive. Turkey supplies are dangerously low.
A lone loyalist, exhausted from trekking across no elf’s land, somehow reaches Rudolf’s command bunker. He is accosted by Red Nose’s guards, treated roughly.
‘Leave him,’ says the benevolent ruby-nosed leader. He turns to the intruder. ‘Why have you come, little elf?
‘It’s Santa,’ says the elf, struggling for breath. ‘He’s… I think he might be dying.’
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Wow. Dark days in the North Pole, dark days indeed – but not as dark as the goings on that James Godd conjures up in Haterz. A tale of social media savagery unlike any other, if you’ve ever felt like you hate the internet and everybody on it (as we all have from time to time), then this is the book for you.
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Vladimir Putin, President and former Prime Minister of Russia, today emerged in public after an eleven-day disappearance and revealed, “I just got really caught up in this awesome book.”
Turning up as scheduled for a diplomatic meeting with the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, in St Petersburg, Putin said, “I’m really terribly sorry I’ve been off the radar for so long; really I didn’t even know people were looking for me. You know how a great book can draw you in.”
Last seen on March 5, at a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Putin entirely vanished from the public eye until this morning, fuelling speculation that he had fallen victim to internecine Russian politics. The eyes of the world were on today’s meeting with the leader of Kyrgyzstan, which was otherwise a routine meeting to discuss ongoing peaceful relations between neighbouring states.
Questioned about his long absence, the Russian leader (62) said, “I just picked up this book, you know, it’s about the internet.”
He then flourished a copy of James Goss’s Haterz, out now from Solaris.
“I thought I was just going to read it for five minutes on the toilet, but with one thing and another I couldn’t put it down.
“Obviously it doesn’t take the leader of Great Russia eleven days to read a book! But I read it twice, you know, and made notes.
“I like the cats. Cats are funny, and cute. Also the bit where he has the man tied down and the bottle breaks – I laughed and laughed.”
Asked if he would be reading more works by Goss, Putin declined to comment, but a spokesman for his office said he would be interested in arranging a meeting with the author.
