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A review by a_violentfemme
List of the Lost by Morrissey
2.0
I've been a big smiths/morrissey fan since my teens and after reading his autobiography (which I very much enjoyed) I was really looking forward to this novel. After list of the lost was published I read only bad things about it, but assumed it ever popular moz criticism.
After reading for myself I can sadly confirm that this novel is terrible! I found it a very difficult read and found myself frequently lost in paragraphs I had to reread. I am still not sure what it is even about other than as a tool for morrissey to rant about his favourite topics: politics (and thatcher specifically), factory farming, veganism, the cruelty of the human race and sex. I found the narrative very inconsistent and always returns to morrissey's much too obvious voice on these subjects with little to no point to the characters story line.
All in all it reads as a parody- if I was going to write a novel purely with the purpose to mock the author this is probably what I would come up with.
After reading for myself I can sadly confirm that this novel is terrible! I found it a very difficult read and found myself frequently lost in paragraphs I had to reread. I am still not sure what it is even about other than as a tool for morrissey to rant about his favourite topics: politics (and thatcher specifically), factory farming, veganism, the cruelty of the human race and sex. I found the narrative very inconsistent and always returns to morrissey's much too obvious voice on these subjects with little to no point to the characters story line.
All in all it reads as a parody- if I was going to write a novel purely with the purpose to mock the author this is probably what I would come up with.