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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The best argument to read this book comes from the One Star Reviews here - what a babble! No arguments, just smear and hate, which is too prevalent in debate today. Why not read it and make your own mind up.
Is it true? That's the question you need to answer.
Well done Julie. My copy has been passed around a fair bit now and always gets people talking and ASKING QUESTIONS!
Is it true? That's the question you need to answer.
Well done Julie. My copy has been passed around a fair bit now and always gets people talking and ASKING QUESTIONS!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The title of this book spells out its thesis: that the chattering classes are a bunch of self-regarding thought police. It argues against the herd-mentality that pronounces judgment against lazy targets rather than making the effort to think out personally held and defensible opinions. It lambastes Saddam appeasers, reactionary so-called alternative comedians, anti-Americanism. The Catholic Church also gets a well-deserved kicking.
I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say I relish this book. It fizzes along and skewers a gamut of modern hypocrisies, then grills them on the flames of its author's venom. Pay attention and you'll periodically cleanse your palate too by spooning choice morsels from the fruit salad of said author's own inconsistencies.
In conclusion: a call to arms for the thinking classes.
I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say I relish this book. It fizzes along and skewers a gamut of modern hypocrisies, then grills them on the flames of its author's venom. Pay attention and you'll periodically cleanse your palate too by spooning choice morsels from the fruit salad of said author's own inconsistencies.
In conclusion: a call to arms for the thinking classes.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There are far too many books that preach to the converted. But the appeal of Not In My Name is that it doesn't take sides. Well, of course it does - nearly every page is crammed with superstrength opinions. But it certainly doesn't play it safe. Everyone who reads this book - left, right, gay, straight - will find their own particular hypocrisies glaring back at them. Like a good rant with the best kind of drinking buddies, while I certainly disagreed with Burchill and Burden more than a few times, I finished the book grateful for having my (green, lefty, white, middle class, straight) assumptions about the world challenged, and the evening - to stretch the metaphor - definitely finished with high fives outside the kebab shop. On some issues I came away with my own convictions stronger in defiance of theirs, but on others they convinced me the world isn't quite the way I might lazily have assumed it was.
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Self-righteous, ranting drivel
I could barely get past the first page. A load of old opinionated faff. I think we know who the hypocrites are, we need only look at the cover.
Published 16 months ago by Andrew
A 'celebrity' biographer calls
When an author is defined by 'celebrity' biographies and an unqualified support for Israel based on 'gut feeling', you can expect the worst.... Read more
Published 22 months ago by R. Mellor
A fantastic short read!
"Once upon a time Julie Burchill was a smart, Soviet-supporting, left-wing, anti-war activist. She's a shell of her former self now, having turned into an anti-environment, pro-war... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2010 by Mr. James R. Bloodworth
hypocrisy
V.poor book. I wouldnt even bother taking it out from the library never mind buying it.
The sad thing is i was actually really looking forward to reading this... Read more
The sad thing is i was actually really looking forward to reading this... Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Michael Curran
Pathetic
Once upon a time Julie Burchill was a smart, Soviet-supporting, left-wing, anti-war activist. She's a shell of her former self now, having turned into an anti-environment, pro-war... Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2009 by Zero
They call this an argument?
The overall message of this book may or may not have been accurate, it's rather hard to tell behind the style of writing. Read more
Published on 23 May 2009 by J.
Life is full of hypocrisy. Deal with it.
At first glance this looked like my sort of book, an exposure of liberal hypocrisies by insiders who had 'seen the light'. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2009 by J. DARBY
No Julie no!!!
If you want simplistic, almost childlike analysis of important topics like Iraq and Israel this is the book for you.
Published on 20 Dec 2008 by Franz B
Seven and a half out of ten
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing - it's heartening to see that age has failed to dampen Julie Burchill's creativity. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by HuddsOn
The Emperor's New Clothes Strikes Again
This woman and her co-author deserve a medal for daring to say the unsayable and think the unthinkable...and in such a hilarious way, too. Read more
Published on 4 Nov 2008 by Reah Maynah Nonnymuss
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