ah, the pleasure of a truly awful review
"If you have bought this book, you are already seventeen quid down. Cut your losses: don't read it."
an excerpt from the book was published in the guardian, it really was terrible.
Posted by flambingo at March 10, 2005 01:37 PM | TrackBackwhich is weird, because joe queenan used to be the master of the devastating review
must be some kind of critical karma
Queenan's book on American trash culture is good. I don't think it's possible for him to translate it, though. (In passing, Bill Bryson is also a bit of a wanker.)
Posted by: nick on March 10, 2005 08:53 PM