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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
In an 'art lit' genre that is dominated by sensationalism, sychophants and myth making, Home stands out as being one of the only writers in his field worth bothering with. He is held in high regard by both Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair, and his work on the Post Dada /Post Futurist 'cosmos' set the benchmark of good writing on those areas, angering many 'experts' and 'academics' in the process.
Situationism is very much a 'fashionable' , increasingly conservative, banal predictable area for people to turn a buck from these days, and academic papers on 'psychogeography' have become tiresome and unadventurous, but Home's work on these areas ( dating from the late 70's onwards ) , is still original and essential reading, though again, it drew fire from many of the self appointed 'experts' in that area,who consider themselves gatekeepers of 'history'.
"Blood Rites" is unpleasant, disturbing, harsh, and bleakly amusing.
If you are into the mystical decadence of poets like Arnaut Daniel; if you are into writers from Baudrillard to Lautremont to Stirner, then why haven't you read Home?
Home still reveals much of the competition to be the phony middle brow nonsense it really is.
Will Self in a London Evening Standard interview called Home a "nasty Situationist Skinhead" -- a statement which is probably true.
Situationism is very much a 'fashionable' , increasingly conservative, banal predictable area for people to turn a buck from these days, and academic papers on 'psychogeography' have become tiresome and unadventurous, but Home's work on these areas ( dating from the late 70's onwards ) , is still original and essential reading, though again, it drew fire from many of the self appointed 'experts' in that area,who consider themselves gatekeepers of 'history'.
"Blood Rites" is unpleasant, disturbing, harsh, and bleakly amusing.
If you are into the mystical decadence of poets like Arnaut Daniel; if you are into writers from Baudrillard to Lautremont to Stirner, then why haven't you read Home?
Home still reveals much of the competition to be the phony middle brow nonsense it really is.
Will Self in a London Evening Standard interview called Home a "nasty Situationist Skinhead" -- a statement which is probably true.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Despicable, if you're a Methodist billionaire or a Hasidic dinner-lady. Trying too hard to be irrelevant in a world of bubble-minded talking heads conveying everything up to and beyond sub-secular pseudo-fascist meanderings. Ultimately Home is making his bed and lying in it, having his cake whilst eating it, basketing the eggs of counted chickens and pretending to be Polish. Just so he can attract the ire of the BNP. Pathetic! And great! God I hate/love this book. Insert your name here.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Blood Rites Of The Bourgeoise was THE literary groove sensation of 2010! Packed full of hardcore pornography, vicious digs at the art world and rumours so slanderous the author has been forced into hiding, this tome will literally rock your world and soil your underpants! And remember, to avoid fainting, keep repeating; "It's only a book, it's only a book, it's only a book.........."
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