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A review by trilobiter
A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
3.0
John Lennon's nonsense is usually entertaining and often hilarious - occasionally it is crude and bigoted, sometimes it is incomprehensible. Mostly it's meant to be, but time and geography have made the dialect spellings more obscure to me than they might have seemed to a midcentury Liverpudlian.
This kind of book seems right as a reflection of Lennon's legacy - one of the world's biggest pop stars, having a "larf" at his audience while reveling in grotesque satire, pausing frequently to giggle at words that sound sort of like other words. Could he have done it with fewer slurs toward the disabled, or minus the uncomfortable uses of the word "jew"? He might have written a true classic otherwise.
This kind of book seems right as a reflection of Lennon's legacy - one of the world's biggest pop stars, having a "larf" at his audience while reveling in grotesque satire, pausing frequently to giggle at words that sound sort of like other words. Could he have done it with fewer slurs toward the disabled, or minus the uncomfortable uses of the word "jew"? He might have written a true classic otherwise.