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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings On Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill & My Mother (2010)

by Simon Schama(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1847921310 (ISBN13: 9781847921314)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bodley Head

review 1: Simon Schama is always a pleasure to read or listen to, largely for his command of the English language and inventive use of the adverb. Maybe he's a bit too good. As an amateur/aspiring writer myself, it's exhilarating to read good prose, but thoroughly demoralizing at the same time. Nevertheless, it's nice to know that, in the spirit of Montaigne, Swift, Chesterton, Orwell, and Updike, the essay as a form of prose is alive and well in the 21st century.
review 2: Lets get this straight. 'Scribble, Scribble, Scribble' Simon Schama showing off. Flouncing with nouns, dazzling with adjectives. Look, look, see what I can do. When writing a review on a biography of Winston Churchill, he talks about the power of Churchill as an operatic orator, which the author ... moredid not really discuss in the bio. Though I have to admit I have always loved a writer who knows how to throw his weight in synonyms around.This a collection of essays, reviews, philosophies, and in some cases recipes Schama has belted out over a 20 year career. Like many collections it can be hit and miss. Schama is at his best when he is a deep historical rant on ideas. The difference between narrative and scholarship, which keeps cropping up; whether talking about Churchill, Thomas Malaculey, Isaiah Berlin, himself with his series (a history of Britain) Barack Obama, and George Bush (or there lack of). The very notion of how to create history with words to explain an hypothesis seems very importnat less

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