by Stewart Home
|
by Stewart Home
|
by Stewart Home
|
by Stewart Home
|
by Stewart Home
|
See buying choices for this item to see if it's one of the millions that are eligible for Amazon Prime.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
One day Stewart Home read three or four of Richard Allen's infamous seventies skinhead novels and thought: "I could do that!" This is his latest attempt in proving that pulp fiction is not as easy to write as it seems. David Kelso, whose fictional journal we are reading, is a writer who only writes about what he does. All he does is travel around the country having rather graphically described sex with every woman he meets. Novelist Iain Sinclair has said: "It's an exercise in futility to complain that Home's novels lack depth, characterisation or complex plots: that is the whole point." To suggest that while Home is gifted, clever, amusing, archly (post-) postmodern he has also proved to have only one joke and nothing new to add to what he has previously said, is to get a little nearer the point. Invoking Bukowski or Richard Allen seems inevitably the way to situate Home's writing but to "situate" Home also misses the point. Home is not making a joke about literature he is making a living by writing joke books. His skill in self-promotion and his preposterous politicking only add to the charm of this underground entrepeneur. Read Cunt if you want to see how entertaining badly written, repetitious, name-dropping pornography can be. --John Davidson
Synopsis
David Kelso is a writer who claims to be so lacking in imagination that his fiction is not fiction at all. Every story he writes centres around sex whether it is violent sex, sexual violence, threesomes, gang-bangs - or murder.'
One day Stewart Home read three or four of Richard Allen's infamous seventies skinhead novels and thought: "I could do that!" This is his latest attempt in proving that pulp fiction is not as easy to write as it seems. David Kelso, whose fictional journal we are reading, is a writer who only writes about what he does. All he does is travel around the country having rather graphically described sex with every woman he meets. Novelist Iain Sinclair has said: "It's an exercise in futility to complain that Home's novels lack depth, characterisation or complex plots: that is the whole point." To suggest that while Home is gifted, clever, amusing, archly (post-) postmodern he has also proved to have only one joke and nothing new to add to what he has previously said, is to get a little nearer the point. Invoking Bukowski or Richard Allen seems inevitably the way to situate Home's writing but to "situate" Home also misses the point. Home is not making a joke about literature he is making a living by writing joke books. His skill in self-promotion and his preposterous politicking only add to the charm of this underground entrepeneur. Read Cunt if you want to see how entertaining badly written, repetitious, name-dropping pornography can be. --John Davidson
Synopsis
David Kelso is a writer who claims to be so lacking in imagination that his fiction is not fiction at all. Every story he writes centres around sex whether it is violent sex, sexual violence, threesomes, gang-bangs - or murder.'
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
70% buy the item featured on this page: Cunt |
 |
30% buy Memphis Underground £5.99 |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
Related forums
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listmania!
|
|
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Fun for Everyone |
Treat Someone
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). |
|||||||||
Make sure you always get what you want with an Amazon.co.uk 
| |||||
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
Amazon Home | |
| International Sites: United States | Germany | France | Japan | Canada | China | |
| Business Programs: Sell on Amazon | Fulfilment by Amazon | Join Associates | Join Advantage | |
| Customer Service | Help | View Basket | Your Account | |
| About Amazon.co.uk | Careers at Amazon | |
| Conditions of Use & Sale | Privacy Notice © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates |