Jack Head

absolute stinker. quite like him and trust his reviews, but this felt so show off-y, and full of references that he doesn't expect anyone to get so that he can gloat about his film knowledge. 300 pages of someone wanking themselves off in a mirror.

the spell of stinkers is broken!! lovely little book

ironically finished this whilst sitting on the cold platform at sheffield station for 2 n a half hours

cracking

dark academia gossip girl

bosh. belter. reading slump? completed it mate

Obviously very academic, which wasn't what I had expected buying it. Some interesting stuff but quite dry on the whole

A very (very) quick read - he's quite good isn't he ! A bit pretentious at (all) times.

Reading a book about reading 52 books in a year whilst trying to read 52 books in a year. Meta!

Stops being interesting after the 40s, then just becomes very surface level

Wow someone from a small film school should really work on adapting this in to a short film

You know it's too slow of a burn if I think it's too slow

Quite dry esp as an audiobook

Iris Murdoch I will always love your books where people just bumble about London and/or France

A bit like a 300 page pat on the back for the Good Friday agreement and meeting Mandela but some useful techniques for professional development (yawn)

I read this shaking my head on the tube so people know I'm anti extremism

Hurry it up mate

I am a firm believer that if you want to write an autobiography, you should have to sit in a room with a panel of experts and tell them 3 anecdotes about your life. If they are boring, no autobiography. Ed Gamble would have failed said panel. Stick to the standup

First one was better. And Patricia Highsmith was, to quote my mother, “someone who gives lesbians a bad name”. Take of that what you will

If I had a pound for every time this year I'd read a really good book about the IRA I'd have two pounds, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

i've read 3 of his books and this is by FAR the best so far. such a strong book to start the year off, will def be rereading

hmmm. the fact it took nearly a month to read speaks volumes, very rambling. he writes so well but literally nothing happens. if anyone else had written this i wouldn't have finished it - his prose is this books only saving grace

DNF. triggered one of my longest reading slumps ever

So bloody good man. Luv u Cormy ❤️

I know that Lewis Isbell will take the piss out of me for enjoying this because it was published in the 21st century, but this is genuinely one of the best non fic books I've read. Could easily have been dry and not much fun because of its subject but it almost reads like a fiction. Absolute belter, what a book to take me to the 52 book year

Seems to be trying slightly too hard to be random at points