Deep Fried

by Bernard Beckett

Two teens dare to take on a multi-national corporation in this YA thriller novel by award-winning writer Bernard Beckett.Deep Fried is a fascinating mixture of intrigue, psychological thriller and rebel-of-the-moment youth culture. Peter and Charlotte are itchy, bored by life. They decide through a chance happening to take on a corporate giant (a very large corporate giant cleverly disguised as the Prince of Burgers). Using the media and the internet, they quickly gather quite a following. However, the corporate giant fights back using some very slick enticements and snares to really test the ethical and moral fortitude of our hero and his catwoman. The pitfalls and seductions of the internet are nicely drawn, there's some rather obsessive stalker behaviour, not to mention chat rooms and hackers, lots of suspense and a great thriller ending. Politically savvy, fast-paced and compelling Deep Fried tests the temperature of the disenchanted. A standout novel featuring the debut of Clare Knighton along with veteran writer for teens, Bernard Beckett.

154 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Bernard Beckett, born in 1967, is a high school teacher based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he teaches drama, mathematics, and English. Genesis was written while he was in a Royal Society genetics research fellowship investigating DNA mutations. The book has already received international acclaim, including two literary prizes in Beckett's native New Zealand. Rights to Genesis have been sold in twenty-one countries.

Reviews

[Dharyin]

this book is abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out,a bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory.
this is obviously an exaggeration but you get the idea, i didn't like it.

I decided to read this book because the teacher recommended it to me.

it completes the "your own choice" category on the bingo board.

i dont have a favorite quote because i felt the book was overall deficient of any sort of humour, direction or underlying purpose.

I learnt that what the teacher might like i might find unbearable.

I did not find any of the characters interesting because i was too busy being bored to find them interesting.

[Jorge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant story. Just shows that you can't trust Goodreads ratings.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm afraid I didn't enjoy this. The main character's outlook on the world was very downbeat and he was obviously depressed. The ending was disappointing, and it was mostly a theory about how fast food companies are secretly going take over the world (okay so I'm exaggerating but you get the point) and it often made consumerism out to be really bad and such which isn't always true. Anyway the whole story, as well as the apparently unnecessary swearing, just kinda irritated me.