Entertainment For Lively Minds
Anyone reading Apathy For The Devil?
Posted by the_saint on 22 March 2010 - 3:34pm.
I'm almost to the end of 1973 in Nick Kent's decade-spanning memoir, and have to say I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Bit slow to start, but by the above year it's cooking on gas (or perhaps a blackened spoon held over a grubby Bic lighter). The characters come thick and fast, so even once you've convinced yourself you'll only read until the next paragraph break before putting the light out, another maniac slides in to the narrative to hold your attention further.
Good stuff!
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Just started...
today so don't tell me the ending...!
I'm up to 1973 too
I love it , unputdownable as they always sometimes say . It seems to be getting lousy reviews though , I think I detect a hint of sour grapes.
Currently on (in?) 1975.
Currently on (in?) 1975. 1974 was the best yet. Anyone else noticed how rarely Mr Kent uses commas? Quite refreshing.
He's had a bit of kicking round these parts in another thread..
Unfairly, I'd say.
He's bracingly honest, possessed of some wonderful turns of phrase and description, and gives Sid Vicious and a few others a long-overdue shoeing. Yes, the odd cliche creeps in, but let he who would cast the first stone look for the plank in his own eye, eh? Metaphorically speaking.
In The Filth and the Fury
it's Sid who gives Nick the shoeing. Only Sid does it literally, rather than literarily.
Nicely put...
Nicely put...