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Bezig met laden... Pies and Prejudice (2007)door Stuart Maconie
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another good book from Maconie. Interesting trawl around the north ( ) Maconie is a columnist, radio personality and travel writer from the Northern town of Wigan. In this book he travels from his adopted home of London, in the South, to all places North. He goes to inland towns and villages and along much of the Northern coast, stopping at lots of apparently ugly places filled with rude people, but he does like a couple of places and more importantly, he imparts information, like why people in Newcastle are called "Geordies" and why Liverpool and Manchester put so much effort into football rivalry. I've read another by Maconie, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England and liked that one a little more, probably because it included a lot more music history, but this was a good one. Maconie’s voice transfers convincingly to the page, and this is always entertaining and readable. It’s an affirmative account of the North of England, and its culture, a joky tone set by the use of Christopher Eccleston’s introductory gag as a Dr Who (“lots of planets have a north”: funny, but meaningless) to frame it. Although it’s kind of interesting to know which town is the birthplace of both Eric Idle and Ridlley Scott, or how the Nissan car company has made itself part of Wearside culture, it is only kind-of. Much of the language and the descriptions do work evocatively, and so too where the author pays tribute to the poetry of place names and local vernacular like the imagined odyssey of “...Wetherby, Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Darlington and eventually the 'fabled Scotch Corner where I would buy a Cup-a-Soup for a passing lorry driver...” But with not quite enough meat to this book, he finds himself diverting here and there to his mum’s wonky recall of family lore or a remembered slight from a cabbie. Maconie can write well enough -, but really, he needs to find something to write about. This is enjoyable but light fare (as with his Middle England book). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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