- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Picador; New Ed edition (2 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330493353
- ISBN-13: 978-0330493352
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 543,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'If you like Nick Hornby, you'll like this' Daily Mail 'Sharp and enjoyable...A clever social comedy' The Times 'A thoroughly entertaining novel' Scotsman 'Canny, funny and refreshingly original' Mirror
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Daily Mirror, July 2003
...this is a rites of passage tale that pushes all the right 1980s nostalgia buttons.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Thinly Disguised' is just about right given what Mr Delingpole claims in his various newspaper and magazine columns about his student days. It is sporadically funny but the narrator - a snobbish social climber who wishes he'd gone to Eton and spends his time at Oxford trying to hang out with upper-class students in the hope that people might think he's one of them - is not very convincing at all.
Delingpole can do a lot better - for evidence of this, see the very promising Dick Coward adventures. In fact, had I read this novel before I read 'Coward on the Beach', I might not have bothered with that! As early novels written by male authors and containing more than a hint of autobiographical detail go, this is worth comparing with Nicholas Monsarrat's 'This is the Schoolroom'. It's not as good, though.
Delingpole can do a lot better - for evidence of this, see the very promising Dick Coward adventures. In fact, had I read this novel before I read 'Coward on the Beach', I might not have bothered with that! As early novels written by male authors and containing more than a hint of autobiographical detail go, this is worth comparing with Nicholas Monsarrat's 'This is the Schoolroom'. It's not as good, though.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you liked Hugo Young's "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", this'll be right up your alley. It's a weird book, in that the author behaves like a tosser throughout, but because he's brutally honest about his life, you have to admire him. Some incredibly accurate chapters on bad drug experiences had me almost having a panic attack by proxy. And it's not often you can say that about the paperback you're reading.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's a great book, very funny, very open, very full of all human insecurities, do I look good, what do they think of me, how can I fit in and so on. Great set pieces such as first sex, fantastic drug descriptions of the early ecstasy period. If this is really a thinly disguised autobiography then it is the most baring and revealing I have ever read. It will stay with you a long time.
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very good
Unflinchingly honest - just like his journalism his honesty shows a writer who has the guts to tell it like it is and bugger the consequences.
Published 9 months ago by Young Goblin
Readable Trash
Thinly disguised autobiography? Really? If this was really his life James Dellingpole is one lucky man! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sontee
Whingeing, insecure drivel from a right wing idiot
I thought this book was OK until I became aware of Delingpole's journalism, recent posts of which deny the impacts of climate change, support the British Empire and leant sympathy... Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2009 by Ray L
Fantastic!
I read this book about two years ago and I thought it was one of the best books I've read ... very funny, some very cringeworthy moments but ultimately I loved it and cannot... Read more
Published on 26 April 2008 by Tink
Refreshingly honest; daring to say what others only think!
"It's a beautiful song, the sort that makes you tight in your throat; that makes you yearn for a golden time you probably never experienced but would sell your soul to... Read more
Published on 15 April 2007 by Bethany Williams
Thinly-disguised self-reviewer?
It would be very much in keeping with the spirit of this book if all the rave reviews it has received were actually written by Delingpole, and he was secretly hating and loving... Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2006 by Rex Slater
All too true
The is an absolutely brilliant book.Horribly true to life.As someone else said if this is thinly disguised autobiography then it is the most truthful i have read in a long long... Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2004
Hilarious!
Superbly written in a manner that will not allow you to put it down, this has to be the funniest book that I have read this year! Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2004
An uncomfortable pleasure to read
This book was a pleasure to read; witty and amusing, but also quite poignant, it reminded me of Weedon & Grossmiths' "Diary of a Nobody" but written from the perspective of a... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2003 by Isabel Evans
He's done it at last
I have long been a fan of James Delingpole's journalism and have always made a point of reading his novels. Read more
Published on 28 July 2003
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