Georgia Grilhe Rabello Grilhe Rabello itibaren 10800 Ayvacık Köyü/Dursunbey/Balıkesir, Turki
Really not a great book. The mixture of genres seemed less obscene than desperate. Bludgeonsome politics. Seemingly random chronology, up until the very end of the book. Coe writes these vicious and brutal profiles of some truly obnoxious characters, then salts them with the mooniest narrator ever. The big problem with the book is it tries to be both farce and expose of Thatcherism, but the two sit together as peacefully as 8-year-olds on a road trip. I've heard Coe is a great writer; will have to investigate further.
For anyone who knows me, this is the most suspect 5-star rating that I will ever give a book. That is because of my rather rabid support of, and obsession with, the Carolina basketball team and program. I don't think that anyone other than Duke or Carolina fans -- OK, OK, I guess we could expand that to say ACC basketball fans -- could really enjoy this book. Yes, I believe that it is well-written and, yes, it does move away from the core controversy/hatred at issue into general discussions of the role of "hatred" in life that are amusing and interesting. But I cannot divorce myself from who I am and how much (and why) I enjoyed this book to recommend it to others without this caveat.