Sam Jordison
Auteur van Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK
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The 10 worst of everything : the big book of bad door Sam Jordison
Book of lists, enlivened by occasional sallies against Trump, Brexit etc.
I've never lived in any of the fifty towns or cities listed in "Crap Towns" so I will need to accept the word of a bunch of anonymous people who may or may not have an axe to grind about particular towns.
I'm so old I remember when "Crap Towns" was a section of "The Idler" website. There are many humorous moments to be had reading of just how crap some UK towns are, although after a while some of the entries have a sameness about them.
I'm so old I remember when "Crap Towns" was a section of "The Idler" website. There are many humorous moments to be had reading of just how crap some UK towns are, although after a while some of the entries have a sameness about them.
Eloise Millar is our guide in this wonderful, highly-enjoyable tour of London, one of the cradles of World Literature. In Literary London we find ourselves in numerous famous spots. Stations, squares, theatres, pubs, and churches. We meet a plethora of literary figures, following the steps of some of the giants of Literature.
From Shakespare, Marlowe, and Samuel Johnson to Marx, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Henry James and Zola, the list is endless. We travel to Trafalgar Square which became Victory Square in 1984, to Charing Cross to wave goodbye to Harry Potter, to Whitechapel following the traces of Jack the Ripper.
Between those famous and many other less illustrious spots, some of the greatest Literature of all times have been created, and the book is a tribute to Literature and to a city full of mysteries, blessed with a dark, bleak beauty. After all, when a novel is set in London, the city becomes a character.… (meer)
From Shakespare, Marlowe, and Samuel Johnson to Marx, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Henry James and Zola, the list is endless. We travel to Trafalgar Square which became Victory Square in 1984, to Charing Cross to wave goodbye to Harry Potter, to Whitechapel following the traces of Jack the Ripper.
Between those famous and many other less illustrious spots, some of the greatest Literature of all times have been created, and the book is a tribute to Literature and to a city full of mysteries, blessed with a dark, bleak beauty. After all, when a novel is set in London, the city becomes a character.… (meer)
The joke here is that just about everyone's town or nearest city is included in this book. In fact, I think the book is of the 50 most populous cities in the UK. Its very funny and an ideal gift for anyone British - the first thing they will do is thumb through to find out if their town is in it. Then watch their face as either they are amused or get all defensive when reading the criticism of their home town.
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