Isle Of Dogs - Patricia Cornwell

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Mon, 2002-04-15 02:03

Pele. Perhaps the greatest player ever. He graced World Cups with his sublime skills and deadly finishing. Imagine him choosing to play in goal, blindfolded, for Halifax Town in an LDV Vans Trophy first round match, the pitch a mudbath and only 12 supporters watching. Imagine them losing twenty - nil. Now imagine how you feel watching it. This is Pele! Why is he in goal? Why is he blindfolded? He's making a fool of himself! Why is he playing here anyway for God's sake? Take off that blindfold! Get back up front! Do your stuff! I've been robbed of seeing the greatest player ever just because you've made a silly decision! That is what it's like reading this book. Pele didn't play in goal, and Patricia Cornwell doesn't write comedy. Or at least not good comedy. You can sense her giggling to herself as she types but no-one else is going to laugh because she hasn't got a clue what she's doing. Purile, self indulgent, painful, badly written tosh. Get that blindfold off woman and go and score some goals. Leave the goalkeeping to someone else.

Mon, 2002-04-15 02:38

Primate

I still can't let it lie. I am completely and utterly outraged by the sheer ineptitude of this book. If Cornwell wasn't who she is then it would never, ever, ever have been published. There are loads of good comedy writers out there who can't get a break, and THIS get's published? And with jacket comments like 'pitch-perfect....Swiftian eye for the absurd'. Swiftian my @!#$! It's about as Swiftian as Richard Madeley. There's a character called Windy Brees for Christ sake. Windy Brees?! That's about the level of Cannon and Ball on a bad day! It's facile, it's stupid, it hasn't got one likeable character in the whole mess and, to insult the readers' intelligence even more, she feels the need to explain nearly every single sentence of the oh-so-amusing backwards dialogue of the just-as-amusing natives. Dont buy this whatever you do. Ever.

Mon, 2002-04-15 02:41

Primate

Ever.

Mon, 2002-04-15 16:34

Andrea

Won't then.

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