Currently reading
The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
Train To Hell
This book is lazy and dated, although it's almost certain communist humour was a lot funnier in 1980's Soviet countries, where people didn't believe in communism quite as much as Sayle.Regardless of communist politics -- of which I am indifferent and always have been -- Sayle phoned in 98% of the mock-absurdist humour, probably to his co-writer, who equally probably wrote the only (laugh-out-loud) moment in the book. I was writing better absurdism when I was 16, but that's because I didn't have a message.
I bought this used, despite the pretend-funny cover, because it didn't cost anything (hmmm...) and desperately wanted to drop it ever second but plodded on to the end, where it gets worse, because I looked up who this "fat ugly git" ever could have been, and he was loosely affiliated with the Young Ones, whom I now wonder if I'll ever watch.
