As someone who has paged through the expedition diaries of more than one Victorian explorer, I found a lot to like about The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire of those very types of people and their writing. But even if you haven’t has the pleasure of reading much in that genre, you may still find something to like within. Led by Binder, a man desperate to be the type of leader he’s read about but lacking any insight into himself and others and trying […]
B@*!@*ds!
In The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, journalist Owen Jones takes a look at who and what exactly make up The Establishment in Britain and lays out the long con that has been played on a British public that has swallowed hook, line and sinker, the lie that the Establishment only wants the best for our country and that the blame for all of our problems lies squarely with the disabled, unemployed and immigrants, rather than the shower of greedy shits at […]
Garbage people behave like garbage
At an Australian suburban barbecue, someone has brought along a child of the type that makes you sure you never want children – free to destroy things and hit people as he sees fit, with his parents clucking affectionately over his every action. Until his umpteenth assault of the day when an adult, who is not his parent, slaps him and all hell breaks loose. Taking this incident as its jump-off point, The Slap then looks at the lives of those attending the barbecue and […]
A Slight Disappointment
The British have apparently long been fascinated with crime and criminals, from the crowds that would gleefully gather to watch public executions hundreds of years ago right up to the Sunday night telly watcher, inhaling the latest series of Sherlock. In A Very British Murder, Lucy Worsley – she who’s also regularly on telly as one of its more engaging historians – looks at the British appetite for murders most foul, and how those appetites have affected and evolved our most popular forms of entertainment. […]
Mostly Boring Dinners
Living in a forest during a freezing winter, Feyre and her family rely on her ability to hunt to keep them alive. When Feyre kills an animal that also happens to be a faerie, she is claimed by the fallen’s friend as payment for her transgression. Whisked off to a magical kingdom, Feyre soon starts to fall for the faerie prince that’s keeping her captive and hoping that she will be the key to his freedom from a curse upon his people. Lots of my […]
Containing few cannibals and hardly any sex
Travelling is something that always brings out the very worst in me. Simply getting a bus to somewhere unfamiliar in my hometown can set off a frenzy of anxiety that can ruin not only my day but those of everyone I come into contact with, so you can probably imagine the nightmare I can make of travelling to a different country. Add in that I’m also someone who needs frequent medical interventions and it becomes blindingly obvious that the fantasy of living on a desert […]
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