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Kev King is the narrator of novelist C. M. Taylor's controversial, satirical football novel, ''Premiership Psycho'' (ISBN 978-1-84901-594-3). An all action midfielder, 'compulsive shagger'〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html〕 and psychopathic customer vigilante who "targets those who have committed offences against consumerism",〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html〕 King shakes off a fall from grace to become an unnamed London Premier League club's star player, guiding the club to the treble. Kev narrates the novel himself in an aggressive, slangy and product-obsessed "inventive language",〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html〕 which has led one critic to call Kev King a "stream of consciousness brand warrior".〔http://twofootedtackle.com/book-reviews/book-review-premiership-psycho/〕 While Kev King's obsessions and neurosis have led to him being described as a "worthy and logical successor"〔http://twofootedtackle.com/book-reviews/book-review-premiership-psycho/〕 to Bret Easton Ellis's ''American Psycho''. == Controversy and reception == One critic of ''Premiership Psycho'' have found Kev King to be "arrogant" and "full of misplaced self importance",〔http://madhousefamilyreviews.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-premiership-psycho-cm.html〕 while another reviewer stated that the book was "detestable", "sexist", and, "aimed at those who see woman as objects".〔http://www.newbooksmag.com/reviews/6491-9378/review.php〕 Yet most reviewers have interpreted Kev King's abundant and exaggerated faults as a "merciless satire"〔http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/title.asp?AuthorID=160&TitleID=316〕 on the shallow world of overpaid footballers, with ''FourFourTwo'' magazine calling the book "''American Psycho'' for the hundred grand a week generation...", "genius" and "brilliantly appalling",〔http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/title.asp?AuthorID=160&TitleID=316〕 while ''The Sun'' called Kev King a "huge mickey take on celebrity"〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premiership-Psycho-C-M-Taylor/dp/1849015945〕 and the ''Daily Mirror'' described him as "horribly entertaining".〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premiership-Psycho-C-M-Taylor/dp/1849015945〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kev King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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