Now, The Daily Mail and I are pretty much diametrically opposed in terms of the way we view the world. Their scaremongering bigotry is not really my bag but Big Daddy found a review of Autobiography last night and I had to share it. I think it's spot-on but can't figure out why the reviewer gave it two stars (out of five) instead of one.
This charmless man.
My favorite bit:
Though he can’t stop ranting against
Mrs Thatcher (‘Dispassionate and obviously mad... a swamp of tormented
revenge’ etc, etc), his admittance to Penguin Classics represents the
triumph of Thatcherism, proof positive that there is now no citadel
immune to the demands of commerce.
There's the odd sentence with which I disagree but, mostly, I could've written this review. I would have liked to have found another publisher, though.
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