He's your mate, he is, he's your mate.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>Rachel Cooke doesn't seem to have come away unscathed from the article Paul

Polarised reactions for sure, with several weighing in from the Kershaw publisher's camp.
As for me, well I don't have a copy or any opinions - just thoughts !
I'll link to the 'very best' review - why best ?

Because it's in The Yorkshire Post !
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...time_1_3542356

[Globaltruth]

>>Rachel Cooke doesn't seem to have come away unscathed from the article Paul

Polarised reactions for sure, with several weighing in from the Kershaw publisher's camp.
As for me, well I don't have a copy or any opinions - just thoughts !
I'll link to the 'very best' review - why best ?

Because it's in The Yorkshire Post !
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...time_1_3542356

that's quite a review from Rachel Cooke - and the comments are worth reading too, overwhelmingly supportive of AK.

I'm with Ps in the 'no copy, no opinion' camp...

[Paul Sherratt]

I'm not even sure, Global, that I'll even leaf through it in Waterstones, as one thing I'm nearly always disappointed
with is how most elements of the print industry reproduce my photos !

Now, where IS that comfy fence ...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9n4xrwD-LU...enceSitter.jpg

[ian russell]

Oh, he's had a book out. I wondered what was going on with this thread.

Rachel Cooke doesn't seem to have come away unscathed from the article Paul, if the comments under the article are anything to go by

A word to the wise about readers' comments on the Guardian. Had the review been favourable, the comments would have been contrary. It seems the Guardian is the preferred choice of people who hate newspapers and journalism.

I thought it was a fairly good article. The Guardian contributor's comment about sub-text is valid.

[ian russell]

I'm not even sure, Global, that I'll even leaf through it in Waterstones, as one thing I'm nearly always disappointed

You can always do what many do in these cases and replace it in the fiction section.

Under 'crime'.

[Globaltruth]

Oh, he's had a book out. I wondered what was going on with this thread.

er, perhaps better off wondering why he suddenly appeared on the Graun's website ...product placement baby, product placement.


actually we could look into thread sponsorship I'm sure ff would approve -
just think, nice ads down the sidebars, pop-ups, tracking cookies profiling your web browsing history & making focussed retail suggestions ()

[pauses to consider recommending an ad-blocker, then decides not to]

[ian russell]

er, perhaps better off wondering why he suddenly appeared on the Graun's website ...product placement baby, product placement.


actually we could look into thread sponsorship I'm sure ff would approve -
just think, nice ads down the sidebars, pop-ups, tracking cookies profiling your web browsing history & making focussed retail suggestions ()

[pauses to consider recommending an ad-blocker, then decides not to]

Anyone can appear on the Guardian's website now. And they've recently launched a video ''Comment is Free'' facility. I told you, they hate journalism.

I suppose I might have guessed why he was on. Though it wasn't explicitly promoting a book, I'm often cynical whenever a hitherto absent c'leb is wheeled blinking into the limelight to offer opinion on the state of affairs. But I don't buy books anymore, so I don't find myself in Waterstone's perusing the three for twos (they may even have gone broke, like Habitat, and I wouldn't know - unless it was in the Guardian).

[Lateralthinking1]

I'm more for the Independent. Have to say that I don't really welcome this book. Potentially, it seems to place him on the rack somewhere between Jordan and Lampard. And I am not sure that it does him any favours to be a celebrity anti-celebrity.

Non-financially, this may have been the time to temper the fire. He could have been emerging as a kind of Tony Adams. Better still, we could have had something from him wholly about music. I have that strange half-autobiography by Peel which didn't make me feel good either. I think I prefer the personalities of music presenters to be heard mainly through their work.

(Incidentally, I truly believe that he would benefit from emotional support on the loss of Peel and Walters because I feel instinctively that there were bereavement issues there which then led to the other difficulties).