Suedehead

Very disappointing. Skinhead was a great book, not particularly well written, but still a good yarn and a decent document of the times. Suedehead, however, is neither. The plot jumps all over the place. The characters are incredibly weak and unbelievable and the lead, Joe Hawkins, is completely alien to his original portrayal. He even seems like several different people in this one novel! This book seems to have been written as a quick reaction to the unexpected success of Skinhead and as such the author has to squeeze in sex and violence where he can. The football ground incident is simply ridiculous. I finished the book, so two stars rather than one.....

Read this in my youth and wanted a bit of nostalgia so I downloaded it. Just as I remembered it and a good bit of entertainment. Seems less shocking nowadays.

I bought this along with Richard Allen's "Skinhead" as this is the second part of the story told in that book plus given the price who could argue with it, that is one of the great things with the Kindle library, the price of some great books is realy chap.

Back to my youth lol-not what someone would write now but a pulp fiction book of it's time.Along with Skinhead and all the Richard Allen books it tells what life was like for some in the 1970s,not as bad as Joe Hawkins life but some did indulge lol.If your of a certain age (50+) you will love it.

Love these book had them all as a kid payed 25pence from Woolworths getting them all back well worth the money it's the memories I have as 12 year old lad spending every penny on these books know I have nearly got them all back