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Walking To Hollywood (2010)

by Will Self(Favorite Author)
2.9 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
0747598444 (ISBN13: 9780747598442)
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English
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
review 1: Self's most recent novel plays, as others have noted, on some of the theme's from his "Psychogeography" journalism, which is fabulous in itself. Though uneven, and I haven't quite finished it yet (somehow, except for "The Butt" I get worn out by Self's novels, and I have to come back to them a few times, though the experience is exhilarating)Self does manage to mirror Rabelais and far supersede American John Irving, along with a few others, in mere pages.
review 2: In his new book, a perpetually wayward Will Self investigates all manner of madness the only way he knows how – by strapping on his boots and walking to airports. Staged as a “memoir,” we follow the author as he meanders from London to LA to Yorkshire Cliffs. Along the way, he gleefully prods a
... moret conceptual art, dissects a bloated, self-reflexive Hollywood, repeatedly catalogs his compulsive disorders, and peers into the void of his own diminishing mind. A fantastical skewering of psychosis and modern culture, Walking to Hollywood is yet another riotous trip from this mordant and masterful 21st century satirist. less
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Cammy
Read lots of hype about this author, he has lots of books. Yuk!
KarMaC4
(4.5 stars for the opening chapters in the Kindle sample.)
Navi
Started out well but quickly became incomprehensible
sammee
Gave up at page 43. Utter twaddle.
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