Book 22: "High Society" by Ben Elton
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 21:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeI'd just started me detox program with booze because booze makes you fat whereas coke helps you slim. But, bollocks, I wanted a drink. I needed a drink. The record company blokes were all cacking themselves about what a great bloke I was for kicking a coked-up, half-naked girl out of a car in the middle of south London, and not for the first time in my life I realized that if I didn't get drunk quite quickly I might notice that I was a sad, arrogant, bullying bastard.
I've always enjoyed Ben Elton's hard-hitting and satirical novels, and this one is no exception. The title is a pun on drug use, and the way that the whole of society is brought into contact with violent criminals due to the illegality of substances whose use is so widespread. A backbench Labour MP introduces a Private Member's Bill to legalise all recreational drug use, and the other strands of the story all involve people who are involved in drugs some way or other.
I've always enjoyed Ben Elton's hard-hitting and satirical novels, and this one is no exception. The title is a pun on drug use, and the way that the whole of society is brought into contact with violent criminals due to the illegality of substances whose use is so widespread. A backbench Labour MP introduces a Private Member's Bill to legalise all recreational drug use, and the other strands of the story all involve people who are involved in drugs some way or other.
