Zadie Zaps Brash Brits

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by reds4ever


God knows. The Daily Mail types seem to like her though, so probably not.

and theyre vulgar phillistines, so whatever they like should be avoided?

[reds4ever]

Exactly!!!!

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
and theyre vulgar phillistines, so whatever they like should be avoided?

In general, yes.

White Teeth was well received by just about everybody though, so this may be an exception.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by molly bloom


I seem to recall someone I knew coming back from her first term at Oxford and addressing all in her newly acquired tones- she ended here sentences with 'Yah?', which provoked me ask, if in fact as well as studying mathematics, she'd also become German at university.

yah, well, at least over here thats a midwesternism, more or less, of Scandinavian origin. Ive acquired it by listening to Prairie Home Companion too much.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Tedious provincialism for provincialism's sake- as unappetising a trait as cosmopolitan snobbery.

Cosmopolitan snobbery

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Id never heard of her or her book till just now.

still wont be going out to find the book, Im too busy being vulgar

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by molly bloom

Tedious provincialism for provincialism's sake- as unappetising a trait as cosmopolitan snobbery.

Steady on, i was having a go at her type, not London.

[Japher]

She should be writing something more along these lines:

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always *****y. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt."
-Hunter S. Thompson, Football Season Is Over

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
In general, yes.

White Teeth was well received by just about everybody though, so this may be an exception.

White Teeth was a good read, but it wasn't a good book. It had very little literary merit whatsoever, and is a shining example of the then fad in British writing of trying to be like Rushdie but failing. The Da Vinci Code was very easy to read, but horribly cliched and badly written. Likewise, I've just finished Danny Wallace's Yes Man in a couple of days, because it was so easy to read. Not a great book, but fun, and very easy to read.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


yah, well, at least over here thats a midwesternism, more or less, of Scandinavian origin. Ive acquired it by listening to Prairie Home Companion too much.

Not many would-be Minnesotans in the West Midlands in the early 80s- well before the Coen Brothers made 'Fargo' too, and I don't recall Garrison Keillor being hugely popular back then over here.... but I like him, dry humour and all.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
And she moved to America? Oh the irony

We have all the vulgarity she actually loves and little of the snobbery she claims to detest. Though Boston probably has the most, so she's really only moved to a nominally American city anyway.