Tits-Out Teenage Terror Totty

by Steven Wells

"Fucking brilliant." — Irvine Welsh

A Bigger Body-Count than the Bible—Official!

Legendary New Musical Express hack Steven Wells creates a crazed UK populated by berserker Margaret Thatcher sex-dolls, mutant ferret-breeding anarchist witches, incredibly talented chimpanzee novelists and gibberingly insane teenage terrorist psychopaths.

With Princess Diana repeatedly resurrected and then ritually slaughtered to satisfy the angst-lust of the drug-addled British public, with the government kidnapped by revenge-crazed Yorkshire miners, and with an increasingly insane God gearing up for Armageddon, the scene is set for Justine Justice and her top terrorist chums to prosecute their insane jihad against the SAS, vegetarians, road protesters, seriously novelists, rave music, and the cabal of evil, dog-molesting Tory vampires who secretly rule the world.

The result is a book that makes James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake read like Janet and John dumbed down for dyslexics. On Crack. OFFICIAL!

Genres: Fiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Steven Wells was a British journalist and author, born in Swindon, Wiltshire.[2] He is best remembered for ranting poetry and his provocative, unapologetic music journalism. He died of enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma on 24 June 2009 in Philadelphia.

Reviews

[Keiron · Rating 4 out of 5]

completely bonkers from start to finish. a great hyper-violent, over-sexualized comedic "Avant pulp" novel from the former ranting poet turned writer. Writing is delivered just how he used to perform on stage and then some. No topic is missed here. not for everyone but definitely for me.

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has got to be one of my favourite books of all time. I stumbled across it in a 2nd hand book shop, and have read and reread is a fair number of times since.
It's all extremely in your face and offensive, and you really have to get used to how every noun has at least 20 accompanying adjectives. But once you're used to that, you notice how clever and well-written it actually is. I''ve never come across anything like this, and I loved every bit of it.
As for the storyline, I think "insane" covers it pretty well.

[S.S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is glorious satire. If you loved satirical classics such as Candide I highly recommend you check out this way over the top, uber-violent, hyper-sexualized, constantly bizarre tale full of social criticism and entertainment. I was perversely and obsessively engaged almost like looking at a gruesome car accident, but one which had something to say about why we like to look.

If you can find this book (it's not sold in the US sadly) pick it up and get ready for the ride.

[Alan Fricker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read over a long period - not sure when i started. Used to love swells and dug this out of ebay somewhere. Safely say i preferred his music journalism. Reminds me of the zodiac mindwarp bits of the collaborations with bill drummond. Pretty grim stuff