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Ghost Milk reads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board . . . There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker (Evening Standard )
A wise, irascible sentinel: a guardian seeking to protect London's true soul from profiteering interventions by redevelopers and "regenerators" . . . Uncomfortable, sharp and amusing . . . Grippingly atmospheric . . . Fascinating . . . One of our most dazzling prose stylists (Daily Telegraph )
Dazzling prose . . . his language is always heightened . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian (Sunday Telegraph )
A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica (Independent Magazine )
A wise, irascible sentinel: a guardian seeking to protect London's true soul from profiteering interventions by redevelopers and "regenerators" . . . Uncomfortable, sharp and amusing . . . Grippingly atmospheric . . . Fascinating . . . One of our most dazzling prose stylists (Daily Telegraph )
Dazzling prose . . . his language is always heightened . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian (Sunday Telegraph )
A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica (Independent Magazine )
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Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. He travels from the mouth of the Thames to Oxford, crosses Morecambe Bay in the footsteps of drowned Chinese cockle pickers, and visits an Athenian, post-Olympics landscape of vast and deserted stadia.
It is a story of incident and accident, of the curious meeting the bizarre. Sinclair writes of being a labourer in Stratford, of Orwellian steps to ban a book launch in a library, of the fundamentalist visions of J.G. Ballard. Stories of police raids and mass expulsions jostle with accounts of failed grand projects: the Millennium Dome, Thames Gateway, and numerous other half-completed, ill-advised or abandoned structures.
Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Another fascinating tour of the old places, such memories (and a few horrors) and an insight into the plans for the future of dear old London. Iain Sinclair is a man after my own heart - just wish I could write as well as he does!
14 of 63 people found the following review helpful
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Potential buyers, i must relay unto you a warning: do not get this book before reading what i have to say.
I come from a family that has, for generations, taken part in the proud and wholesome practise of ghost farming. As i am now of age i believed it would be time to take part in my family's tradition and found a nice ghost farm of my own. I picked this book up hoping for reliable and helpful instructions on my traditional family practise - perhaps the author could offer some tips in addition to the ones i had been given by my father.
I was greatly dissappointed upon recieving the book to find that it was not about the delicate art of harvesting ghost milk - rather, it is a memoir-travelling journal hybrid. As well written as it is and very interesting to read, i cannot overlook the fact that i am still a novice in the practise of ghost milking. This book cannot explain to me which udder is the correct to harvest from, or how large a barn to keep my ghosts in...without this CRUCIAL information, how am i to succeed in my family's traditional business? My father will be ever so saddened if i cannot bring in any more money with the precious ghost milk that seems in such high demand nowadays.
So, to summarise what i have said : an engaging read, but it shall not help you progress in the world of ghost farming and milk collecting. If someone can reccomend me a book that will satisfy my quest for ghost knowledge i will be happy to hear what you have to say. Otherwise, i must now tend to my prize ghost Jessica - she appears to have just birthed another flock of child nightmares.
I come from a family that has, for generations, taken part in the proud and wholesome practise of ghost farming. As i am now of age i believed it would be time to take part in my family's tradition and found a nice ghost farm of my own. I picked this book up hoping for reliable and helpful instructions on my traditional family practise - perhaps the author could offer some tips in addition to the ones i had been given by my father.
I was greatly dissappointed upon recieving the book to find that it was not about the delicate art of harvesting ghost milk - rather, it is a memoir-travelling journal hybrid. As well written as it is and very interesting to read, i cannot overlook the fact that i am still a novice in the practise of ghost milking. This book cannot explain to me which udder is the correct to harvest from, or how large a barn to keep my ghosts in...without this CRUCIAL information, how am i to succeed in my family's traditional business? My father will be ever so saddened if i cannot bring in any more money with the precious ghost milk that seems in such high demand nowadays.
So, to summarise what i have said : an engaging read, but it shall not help you progress in the world of ghost farming and milk collecting. If someone can reccomend me a book that will satisfy my quest for ghost knowledge i will be happy to hear what you have to say. Otherwise, i must now tend to my prize ghost Jessica - she appears to have just birthed another flock of child nightmares.
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