The Omnivore's Hatchet Job of the Year Award -- "for the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months" -- has announced the shortlist for this year's award.
The Sunday Times ones (there are two of them) are behind paywalls, so they're new to me, but of the others two are ones I recall well and ... fondly ? Hedley Twidle's Paul Theroux take-down in the New Statesman was certainly memorable:
The Sunday Times ones (there are two of them) are behind paywalls, so they're new to me, but of the others two are ones I recall well and ... fondly ? Hedley Twidle's Paul Theroux take-down in the New Statesman was certainly memorable:
Bankrupt in more ways than one, then, this is a book I would recommend only as a teaching aid or to someone interested in tracking the final sub-Conradian wreckage of a genre, rusting away like the hulks of tanks that so fascinate the narrator along the roads in Angola.(I've enjoyed Theroux's work and read practically everything he's written, but this certainly helped push me towards steering clear of this one.)