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A review by kizzia
Walking the Great North Line: Up England Another Way by Robert Twigger
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
This is the first thing I’ve attempted to read by Robert Twigger and I suspect it will be the last as I am clearly not the right reader for his work. I gave it seven chapters, two and a half hours of my life, before deciding I was not willing to give it any more.
On the face of it this book is so far up my street its shoes are on the mat and it’s on the sofa with a cup of tea. Unfortunately the elements that attracted me a lacking I should have taken note of the phrase “living like a homeless bum” used in the blurb as a clue to the tone of the work. The experience for me was like being talked at in a pub by a public school toff who can only relate to things when they affect him personally. Everything was either made light of, made fun of, or given far more weight that it felt it deserved.
On the face of it this book is so far up my street its shoes are on the mat and it’s on the sofa with a cup of tea. Unfortunately the elements that attracted me a lacking I should have taken note of the phrase “living like a homeless bum” used in the blurb as a clue to the tone of the work. The experience for me was like being talked at in a pub by a public school toff who can only relate to things when they affect him personally. Everything was either made light of, made fun of, or given far more weight that it felt it deserved.