| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 09:33 - Sep 9 with 740 views | Ewan_Oozami |
+1 for posting a Meades review.
If you haven't seen them, watch some of his BBC programmes on YouTube, absolute genius!
Although I don't actually understand half of what he saying though! |  |
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| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 09:48 - Sep 9 with 702 views | Ryorry |
Good grief, I was muttering "bore off with your pretentious over-wrought pomposity" by para 3 - and there are 17 more paragraphs for people who like that kind of writing! Maybe the actual book is better than the review? |  |
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| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 10:07 - Sep 9 with 641 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 09:48 - Sep 9 by Ryorry |
Good grief, I was muttering "bore off with your pretentious over-wrought pomposity" by para 3 - and there are 17 more paragraphs for people who like that kind of writing! Maybe the actual book is better than the review? |
Meades' "pretentious over-wrought pomposity" is supposed to be post-modern irony, which I just about get - but he is definitely better on screen than on the page... | |
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| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 10:15 - Sep 9 with 614 views | thebooks |
| Bit of reading to get you through the next few days on 10:07 - Sep 9 by Ewan_Oozami |
Meades' "pretentious over-wrought pomposity" is supposed to be post-modern irony, which I just about get - but he is definitely better on screen than on the page... |
Horses for courses and all that. Personally, I love the contrast of the supple, "difficult" prose with the direct.
Who can't love sentences like "Charles, a repository of worthy wrong-headed convictions, believed that Savile ‘knows what’s going on’ — which is one way of putting it." |  | | |
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