Mad Eyed Screamer
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Morrissey's New Novel - Out Today....
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Based of reviews so far its shockingly bad. Its seemingly unedited, full of spelling mistakes and just shite.
Ive read quite a few pages of it and it makes no sense, why would kids in Boston in 1975 be speaking like Victorian English people and be complaining about royality, winston churchil etc
Ive read quite a few pages of it and it makes no sense, why would kids in Boston in 1975 be speaking like Victorian English people and be complaining about royality, winston churchil etc
Big Yaya Wilko 12
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I'll be buying it. I'm a bit of a Morrissey fan-boy and a lover of awful literature (indeed, almost all literature).
I'll be reading gleefully, whether it's bad, terrible or catastrophic. With my bulbous salutation, of course!
I'll be reading gleefully, whether it's bad, terrible or catastrophic. With my bulbous salutation, of course!
I'll be buying it. I'm a bit of a Morrissey fan-boy and a lover of awful literature (indeed, almost all literature).
I'll be reading gleefully, whether it's bad, terrible or catastrophic. With my bulbous salutation, of course!
Haha, couldn't believe my eyes when i read that. What was he thinking! Il definitely be calling it that from now on though
Big Yaya Wilko 12
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Haha, couldn't believe my eyes when i read that. What was he thinking! Il definitely be calling it that from now on though
It can't be unseen, mate.
Bulbous salutation. It's an incredibly Morrissey euphemism.
'Hmmm. . . Need to think of an opaque synonym for erection. But I'm not allowed to use the word erection.'
It's like he wrote the novel whilst playing a particularly odd parlour game.
without a dream
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...at-we-learned-about-him-from-list-of-the-lost
Think I'll be giving this a swerve.
Think I'll be giving this a swerve.
It’s commonplace in this kind of article to tell you we’re reading the book so you don’t have to. It’s a tease, usually. In the case of List of the Lost, however, it’s absolutely true. Do not read this book; do not sully yourself with it, no matter how temptingly brief it seems. All those who shepherded it to print should hang their heads in shame, for it’s hard to imagine anything this bad has been put between covers by anyone other than a vanity publisher. It is an unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey’s imagination.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Yes I have read a few reviews and to be honest (and this will shock a few of you) I only got as far as 40 pages of his autobiography and was really struggling with it..... and then left it at Boston airport by accident but have never bothered to get another copy..... seems like he wouldnt let anyone edit this piece of work....http://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...at-we-learned-about-him-from-list-of-the-lost
Think I'll be giving this a swerve.
Oh well....
kas_tippler
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I love Morrissey but like other posters I didn't make it past the first chapter of his autobiography, it came across as he grew up in one of Manchesters/Traffords worst neighbourhoods! Kings Road Stretford is hardly that! I might just buy this one for a laugh.
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I’ve read his autobiography. I got 2 copies for Christmas so though I better had. I am not a fan and only knew a few things about him although I had a suspicion he was a tit. Having read it he is clearly a naïve and insular knob-head of the highest order. A running theme through the book is how people take either an instant dislike to him or end up alienating him or screwing him over. At some point you would think that maybe he would ask is it me. Doesn’t surprise me that his book is shit and that he has taken no advice at all on it. I won’t read and will eat an extra chicken burger in his name for being a rag.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Can I have your spare copy of the autobiography? ;)I’ve read his autobiography. I got 2 copies for Christmas so though I better had. I am not a fan and only knew a few things about him although I had a suspicion he was a tit. Having read it he is clearly a naïve and insular knob-head of the highest order. A running theme through the book is how people take either an instant dislike to him or end up alienating him or screwing him over. At some point you would think that maybe he would ask is it me. Doesn’t surprise me that his book is shit and that he has taken no advice at all on it. I won’t read and will eat an extra chicken burger in his name for being a rag.