Щоденник порнографа

Crime Diaries

by Danny King, Денні Кінг, Борис Превір (Translator)

Більше драм, ніж у театрі. Менше одягу, ніж у басейні

На думку друзів, Ґодфрі Бішоп має найцікавішу професію на світі: він - редактор порножурналу. Ґодфрі спілкується з моделями, отримує сотні листів з брудними фантазіями читачів, організовує фотосесії… Та що насправді не потрапляє на глянцеві сторінки?

Щоденні виклики порнографа - строгі дедлайни, зламана фотоапаратура, зірвані контракти, розгнівані прискіпливі читачі й навіжені фанати, що сподіваються випросили адресу чергової зірки з обкладинки. У роботі редакції більше психології, ніж у кабінеті психоаналітика, а бюрократії не менше, ніж у державних установах. Тут як ніде знають, як продавати секс, але не уявляють, де купувати нові нервові клітини…

Genres: Fiction, Comedy

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Danny King was born in Slough, Berkshire, the second son of Michael and Dorothy King. He and his two brothers, Ralph and Robin, lived on the Britwell Estate until 1979, when they moved to Yateley, Hampshire. He attended Yateley School but failed to gain any qualifications before leaving at the age of 16. He stacked shelves for a short stint in the Yateley branch of Somerfield (then Gateway), before working on various building sites as a hod carrier.
In 1991 he took an Access course at Farnborough College of Technology, which helped him land a place at The London College of Printing studying journalism. Between 1993 and 2002 he worked on various magazine titles, eventually becoming Editor of the Paul Raymond Publications title Mayfair (magazine). He now writes full-time.
In the late 1980s, he was arrested several times and convicted of burglary at Winchester Crown Court and car theft at Camberley Magistrates Court. It is largely due to receiving these convictions that he cites as his reasons for giving education a second go.

Reviews

[Marta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Відгук тут тиць.

[Martin Sidgreaves · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with all of Danny Kings books, I enjoyed this from start to finish. A humorous account of what it must be like to work for a porn mag!

[Eric Hamell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very entertaining. Even while taking the light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek tone characteristic of all Danny King's books, he also manages to make some serious points about the issue.

[Birgit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hardly funny, not worth reading.

[Kate Gould · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’m not especially knowledgeable about porn, but I’ve always assumed it is manufactured for men who think there is no more to sex than a Brazilian wax and a hard-on. A clichéd view perhaps, but one Danny King’s fictional exposé of the girly porn mag industry disappointingly confirms.

It begins entertainingly enough with Godfrey’s almost endearingly self-deprecating humour. Soon, however, so repetitive is the macho posturing that it reads like a novel-length issue of Loaded until it is just one cliché after another: uniformly sex-mad models (at one point he is set upon by 12 such women); dialogue like pubescent chat; excruciating attempts to debunk feminism; endless nights spent wasted; all rounded off in a finale which transforms Godfrey from sexual ineptitude to stud.

Maybe if I were closer to ladette I’d get it, but if I ever hear the phrase, “take it up the arse”, again I’ll slap whoever utters it.

[Ian Mapp · Rating 4 out of 5]

After the disappoints of the last three books, it was good to get into something funny and entertaining.

This was lad lit at its best with some wonderful laugh out loud moments. "I've seen a badger, but I've never seen a man buy a porn mag".

In fact it reads like the book I would write. It starts with the young godfrey finding a porno mag as a child and starting a life long fixation with porn. So much so that he gets a job as an editor and gets into some scrapes, culminating in him getting fired for doing a public shoot at a tennis court.

Very funny - I instantly ordered another in the series.

[Hardeep · Rating 1 out of 5]

I dont know why, but I was expecting this book to be hilarious- maybe it was the reviews.... Or my expectation of brit humor, but somehow, it completely failed. Sometimes, you truly cannot judge a book by its cover :-)

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh. I've read three other books by this author that had me in fits of giggles with dark humor. Not so here. Uninspired, boring, of shallow depth, not even a smile never mind a laugh was my experience. He's a talented author but this one just fell flat.

[Mark Buttigieg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!!! This is one book I had to slow down because I simply did not want it to end.

[Michael Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of a laugh

[Chuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my all-time favorites, thoroughly enjoyed the re-read.

[Anar Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book by Danny. Funny, as always, and a fun read. Always unpretentious, contemporary, and real.

[Yaroslav Khrushch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best Danny's book, but there are a few cool moments, which make this book worth reading

[Fahimur Rahman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Humorous to the point of pain.