The Death and Life of Psycho Syd - by Syd Barnes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Syd was living a heavenly life in tropical paradise with his perfect partner. In the blink of an eye he was a skeleton in cold rainy Blackpool screaming in agony with terminal cancer. His wife had dumped him. He was alone with his two young children, with Just 6 months to live. An inspirational, dark, gripping, strange hilarious true story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Take your seat on the ghost train for a trip from heaven to hell and back out again</strong></p><p><strong>Psycho Syd was living the dream and loving it. He sparkled, as he luxuriated in living the life of Mr. Riley in tropical seventh heaven. He sported a deep golden tan working as a filmmaker in The People's Democratic Republic of Laos. Hand in hand and blissfully heart in</strong> <strong>heart with his beautiful wife. He was so deeply in love. His two gorgeous kids were studying in international schools.</strong></p><p><strong>The family lived in a modest 2-bedroomed bungalow with a magnificent lush equatorial garden; dazzling tropical fruit trees bearing delicious phenomenal mouth-watering drops of heaven. The jungle was on their doorstep which was a far Tarzan cry away from Syd's old council house with its tiny lawn and flowerbed in Manchester. Jane was usually indoors in the air-conditioned atmosphere living the life of Mrs. Riley. An organic vegetable plot and a Wunderbar herb garden spiced up and flavoured this exotic paradise. A bubbling thirst-quenching spring water well-provided skin tingling and mind revitalising cascading power showers in this steamy wonderland. Deep green creepers, vines and plants grew wild in this luscious Oases camouflaging the Wonderwall which encircled their heavenly garden of Eden.</strong></p><p><strong>Welcome to Paradise</strong></p><p><strong>In the blink of an eye, he awoke from the dream to a ghastly nightmare. He was as white as a ghost with one foot in the grave, claiming benefits in cold grey rainy Blackpool. He had been diagnosed with inoperable stage four mouth cancer and given a prognosis of just six months to live. Join him on his trip to hell as he graphically takes you step by step through the harrowing cancer treatment. After the ordeal, he was a death warmed up burnt and blistered bag of bones sprawled on his sick sofa eight miles high on morphine pouring sickly yucky liquid into his peg tube to keep him alive to the fact that he was dying. You think that is bad? Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet.</strong></p><p><strong>Accompany him on the journey to the centre of his mind after his mother died to join his father on the other side. Next, his wife abandons him and the children. He was all alone dying of cancer, with two young children aged 14 and 4 who were completely dependent on him. Very scary indeed. What would you do?</strong></p><p><strong>Psycho Syd hid under the duvet and screamed. Then he forced his broken body to fight. He was going to beat this bloody cancer because his kids needed him. They had no one else!</strong></p><p><strong>He cut out all processed food and became a raw vegan, drinking a rainbow of fruit and vegetable juices, as well as forcing his feeble frame to exercise.</strong></p><p><strong>Watch in wonder as he devotes his life to his children. Sit next to him each time he visits the hospital for test after test. Clench your fists in frustration as he keeps getting knocked down by one cruel twist of fate after another. Then let your jaw drop in astonishment as he gets up once again and fights on.</strong></p><p><strong>This is not just another cancer memoir; This is something unique. Written in nitty-gritty council estate Mancunian. Raw and edgy with shed loads of dark eye-popping humour. He takes you right there. Taste the madness, hurt and despair as you are gripped in spine-tingling suspense page after page. Get ready to rage, cry, smile, shout, dance, scream and laugh. You will be spellbound as Psycho Syd inspires you into believing that maybe, just maybe, you can achieve the unthinkable too. You will never forget this startling true-life story for as long as you live. You have been warned!</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>The best book I've read in years. Syd invites you into his roller-coaster life and you just have to hang on. Brought many a tear to my eye and smiles galore a page later. Loved it so much after I'd bought it on kindle I bought a real book for the wife.</p><p>Each of us fear the dreaded cancer -but Syd's description of what he went through brings to the life the real hell of what cancer sufferers experience - add to this a broken heart, a single parent, loneliness and despair and what do you get? A gripping read.</p><p>I couldn't put this book down, I have to say its one of the best books I have ever read. Its a true story but I wondered at the beginning whether it was fiction or not because of how horrifically this man had been treated. </p><p>I was hooked to this book from the very first chapter.When you get to the end of the book you will want more. I am eagerly awaiting the next installment of his struggle. A brilliantly written life story from an every day man. Five star read.</p><p>A really interesting saga about life basically, how one minute all is a bed of roses and the next a pile of manure . A Saga of strength in the face of terminal illness, child care and a double crossing witch of a wife .A fabulous read, difficult to put down, </p><p>If John Cooper Clark had written this book it would be a best seller. All told with a very dry wit and sharp tongue.. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will make you wonder how he survived. The Man, the myth the legend that is Psycho Syd.</p><p>To his friends, mere humans, it is an incredible journey that we were privileged to observe from the sidelines: we feared that he would never make it, but all believed that if anyone could, Syd would.</p><p>Completely witty, original and from the heart, this book is the best read I've had in ages.I was gripped by the harrowing true tale. I even shouted at the pages 'Syd what are you thinking?' and on the next page I just wanted to give him a hug. <p/></p><br>
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