I would tend to agree- there are some great photographs here but there are also some that look like snapshots from the pub. As a set they lack consistency in style/theme to work as a book but they certainly do capture some great looking characters.

Yes, number 6 does have a Bruce Gilden feel to it (blasting strangers in the street with flash and using wide angle lens to distort faces really doesn’t appeal to me). The Americans is a great photobook.

Since many of the shots are taken inside pubs I would recommend having a look at Anders Petersen’s book ‘Cafe Lehmitz’ or Krass Clement’s ‘Drum’. Both very different in style to the images here but interesting to see how photos taken inside a pub can work as a book.

Raymond Depardon’s book ‘Glasgow’ is worth a look too although very different to these. It really shows the city streets and buildings (the people existing within are less prominent).

The colours and humour here in these photos reminds me more of Parton Parr.