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If you fly with the crows... Kindle Edition

by Neal Sillars (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
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This hard-hitting, hilarious novel is written in the first person by Rab Sinclair, a shelf-stacker who lives in Heroin Heights in Motherwell. Rab, a Celtic fanatic, has been stuck in a rut ever since leaving school some eighteen years earlier. When he receives a message from his school Facebook page inviting him to a school reunion, he realises that he’ll have to make some quick changes if he is ever going to impress Caroline, an ex-girlfriend and classmate he has never quite got over. Could Tam, a Rangers fan he meets in the local kebab shop,
provide the key to Rab’s success?

As well as being a riveting adventure, If you fly with the crows… explores the use of Scots in 21st century Scotland, laughs at religious bigotry and sexual prudence and demonstrates how internet is taking over our lives.


‘A comic tour de force, with more than a few laughs along the way”
Hi-Arts, sponsored by Scottish Arts Council
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    March 20, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UZSTFXU
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 20, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 569 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 150866837X
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 175 ratings

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Neal Sillars

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Neal Sillars (1968) is a Scottish author living and writing in Galicia in northern Spain. An MA graduate in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies of the University of Glasgow, Sillars writes in widely-differing styles.

His published books to date are:

And the Willows Wept (short stories)

Univers Parallèle (short stories)

Revolutionary Tax (a thriller)

A Conspiracy of Ravens (a short, modern novel with a Celtic theme)

If you fly with the crows... (a humorous adventure novel written in homage to the author's native Scotland)

The Blood of Don Juan de Vargas (an epic historical novel with a twist set in Spain)

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3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
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JB333
5.0 out of 5 stars cant put my iphone down.........
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2010
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So, i have just started, cant finish my review, i am enjoying the main character and writer (Rab) I see a lot of myself in him and feel like he was writing about my own younger days.... LOL.
As an aside, this is my first venture into the world of the virtual book, i didnt think i would like it, but its not too bad to be honest. Its on my phone and i am finding it quite handy to have a read whenever i have a spare bit of time throughout the day. Five Stars From Me.
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jmr
4.0 out of 5 stars not perfect, but WELL worth a read!
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2012
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(would like to give it 4.5 stars) I'm so glad I stuck with this one! Very unusual, very entertaining, very funny in an understated kind of way.

I *would like to see a good editor get ahold of it and add a few commas, do just a little bit o' tweakin' here and there...

(worth a good bit more than the .99 it's showing right now)
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Rose J
3.0 out of 5 stars Hard to understand at times.
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012
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I would have enjoyed this book more if I could have understood the Brogue lingo better. The story was crazy and funny at times. It is a tongue in cheek kind of story. It had a bit too much swearing for my taste. I would say it is more of a guys read.
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Jude24
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2012
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I did not expect to like this book much when I read a synopsis, but I was intrigued from the start. A first person account written as the writer rather than just the character. I really enjoyed this approach. Captivating and quite witty, it is a fun read. I look forward to reading more by Mr. Sillars.
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pinkie
4.0 out of 5 stars quirky
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2012
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Humorous and significantly Scots novel I enjoyed reading although it didn't completely pull me in. It's tough reading modern Scots lingo, but rather fun once you wade through it. Good book really. And I'd never given any remote thought to people supporting soccer teams based on religion. I liked the quirkyness of the main characters, since in real life we are so flawed.
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alex adamson
5.0 out of 5 stars a good read
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
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stange book but very cleverly written and for an ex pat Scot very nostaligic...
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Songbird61
1.0 out of 5 stars don't bother to download
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014
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I couldn't get past the first chapter, as the way this story was written in first tense was hard to read. I'm sure once I got past the 4th or 5th chapter and finally got to the point of the story, it would have picked up a bit, but to read 15 pages and still not get anywhere, was frustrating.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read.
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013
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I enjoyed reading this book. Not the best but certainly not the worst. Entertaining and interesting. I would read more by this author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "If you fly with the Crows ...."
Reviewed in Germany on June 5, 2015
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A very funny book which gripped me from the word "go". As an exile from Glasgow it was wonderful to read the dialect - took me back to my childhood! An excellent story!
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Apollo
5.0 out of 5 stars I was caught offside!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2012
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I must confess that I downloaded this read fully expecting to hate it, suffering as I do, from an unhealthy dose of East/West coast bias (I'm a Dundonian). I was convinced that I would find therein constant references to Ra Gersh and Ra Sheltic, condescending and parochial West coast humour and overuse of "Parliamo Glesga". I'm delighted to report that this book failed to deliver on all those points.

This, as it turns out, is a very well written and extremely clever and witty tale.

Sillars takes us on an hilarious journey from desperate times in Motherwell, via good times in Spain to living the kind of high life you definitely don't want to in Columbia, South America. The comedy is well paced throughout and the characters are very well written and rounded. Everybody in Scotland will have supped a pint or two with guys like these!

At one point I found I had to mentally check myself for starting to think this was a real biographical tale.

Sillars manages to touch on the sectarian issues sadly prevalent in our country but does so in a gentle way that every football fan will recognise. He cleverly ensures that both East and West coasters are included in the tale and in doing so shows a remarkable eye for bringing his potentially divisive readership together.

Our protagonist Rab, is your average 20 something slacker in a dead end and unsatisfying job who takes the bull by the horns and grabs an opportunity that sees him end up in a world far removed from his humdrum existence. How Rab copes with what this throws at him, with the help and connivance of his Rangers daft mucker Tam, provides the drive and the laughs for the story.

Whilst not overly long, it's a well worth a read.
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Adrienne A
5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyed.
Reviewed in Germany on May 11, 2014
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Thought this was an unusual, fun and enjoyable book. Would recommend it to others and will check out what else Neal Sillars has written.
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ange2670
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Read! I believed he was real!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2013
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A good fun read of a book that I found difficult to put down. I genuinely believed I was reading this guy's life story! The characters were plausible - and the plot was so daft that I believed that it had happened (you know how they say that life can be stranger than fiction!). My only small criticism was the insistence of adding in the Glaswegian accent in written form. As a Glaswegian myself, I found some of it difficult to read. Heaven help the rest of the country! All in all though, a great wee caper of a book!
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Leesie
3.0 out of 5 stars If you fly with crows - Neal Sillars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2012
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Set in the high rises of Glasgow, two lads have a business idea that, to the amazement of both of them takes off and grows exponetially. Our narrator begins his strory dangling upside down froma crane in Columbia? Why? You'll have to read it and find out. A feelgood novel of two lazy layabouts made good and the ups an downs of family life, entreprenuership and kebabs. Enjoyable.
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