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2.36 AVERAGE
2.36 AVERAGE
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Oh goodness! What a load of rubbish!
To start, identikit interviews with robotic sounding informants, who all emphasise how wonderful Boris is, and how evil Gove , Cummings, and Dougie Smith are are not fun to read. And reporting every word as fact, with no further investigation or analysis is lazy, and makes them seem made up.
After I read Antony Seldon's book on Boris I foolishly said someone should write a gossipy book about Dougie Smith, and Nadine has... Sort of. Careful what you wish for! She calls him Dr No but forgets that sometimes. He basically controls the whole of government, but not very well, as everytime he brings someone to power he has to destroy themagain, because... I'm not sure, Michael Gove or something. She never finds out anyone's motivation.. Is it money? Is it power addiction? Is it because they are part of a cabal of evil gays? All mooted but not resolved.
What's very much decided is the beatification of St Boris, too good for this world, marvellous father (to two of his kids anyway) wonderful husband, so truthful and loyal, hardworking and a threat to the evil cabal because of his relentless focus on delivering for the electorate. Meanwhile it's strongly implied and sometimes stated that everyone who is not Boris is corrupt, on coke, rapey etc etc. It's just laughable, and tbf this book is pretty funny!
To start, identikit interviews with robotic sounding informants, who all emphasise how wonderful Boris is, and how evil Gove , Cummings, and Dougie Smith are are not fun to read. And reporting every word as fact, with no further investigation or analysis is lazy, and makes them seem made up.
After I read Antony Seldon's book on Boris I foolishly said someone should write a gossipy book about Dougie Smith, and Nadine has... Sort of. Careful what you wish for! She calls him Dr No but forgets that sometimes. He basically controls the whole of government, but not very well, as everytime he brings someone to power he has to destroy themagain, because... I'm not sure, Michael Gove or something. She never finds out anyone's motivation.. Is it money? Is it power addiction? Is it because they are part of a cabal of evil gays? All mooted but not resolved.
What's very much decided is the beatification of St Boris, too good for this world, marvellous father (to two of his kids anyway) wonderful husband, so truthful and loyal, hardworking and a threat to the evil cabal because of his relentless focus on delivering for the electorate. Meanwhile it's strongly implied and sometimes stated that everyone who is not Boris is corrupt, on coke, rapey etc etc. It's just laughable, and tbf this book is pretty funny!
Dearie me. This is terrible.
Two points in its favour. One, it achieves its stated aim of advancing a theory about where power really lies in Westminster. And two, it paints a sympathetic picture of Johnson which runs counter to most media coverage. It is certainly rose-tinted, but the reader will make their own judgement.
Now for why it's a bin fire.
It's written like a novel, for some bizarre reason. We open with a scene in Cabinet and I was puzzled why it was written like a fictional story in which Nadine is the main character. Dorrirs then goes the full Ludlum and writes a book about her writing this book.
Second, and related, we get long monologues from interviewees in chronological order. Reasons that this is terrible include: (1) it's highly repetitive; (2) it's sometimes really dull and tedious; (3) Dorries makes no effort to draw conclusions or make connections. We get her research, not her book.
Third, much of which she "exposes" is predictable political maneuvering more than it is dark conspiracy.
For a bonus point, she's apparently nigh on psychic, somehow anticipating the plot against Boris on the day it happened, and even the death of the Queen moments ahead. Yet the entire conspiracy, half of which is fairly unsurprising seemed to utterly pass her by. Go figure.
This amounts to the interview notes of a deranged fangirl.
Two points in its favour. One, it achieves its stated aim of advancing a theory about where power really lies in Westminster. And two, it paints a sympathetic picture of Johnson which runs counter to most media coverage. It is certainly rose-tinted, but the reader will make their own judgement.
Now for why it's a bin fire.
It's written like a novel, for some bizarre reason. We open with a scene in Cabinet and I was puzzled why it was written like a fictional story in which Nadine is the main character. Dorrirs then goes the full Ludlum and writes a book about her writing this book.
Second, and related, we get long monologues from interviewees in chronological order. Reasons that this is terrible include: (1) it's highly repetitive; (2) it's sometimes really dull and tedious; (3) Dorries makes no effort to draw conclusions or make connections. We get her research, not her book.
Third, much of which she "exposes" is predictable political maneuvering more than it is dark conspiracy.
For a bonus point, she's apparently nigh on psychic, somehow anticipating the plot against Boris on the day it happened, and even the death of the Queen moments ahead. Yet the entire conspiracy, half of which is fairly unsurprising seemed to utterly pass her by. Go figure.
This amounts to the interview notes of a deranged fangirl.