This Left Feels Right : January 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Books to read in 2016: Morrissey - „List Of The Lost”

I have never ever seen a book attacked by everybody for only one paragraph... How can this be? It is worse than judging a book by its cover... The same paragraph was quoted in all the articles. Suddenly, all the journalists became literary critics. Weird! We all know that people read less and less and less... And yet, the number of literary critics gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Today we have more literary critics than actual readers. Ain't that funny?!

Then, the author won the „Bad Sex In Fiction Award” (?!?), of course, for the same paragraph. So, I assume the judges at The Literary Review only read the reviews of this book. Anyway, it was good publicity for their event because all the newspapers wrote about it. Again. Talking about the same paragraph. Again and again and again...
Later edit --- On 5th december, The Guardian published the article: "Did Morrissey deserve to win the 2015 bad sex award?"... So the British press made this award possible by "killing" the book with bad reviews, and then they ask themselves "why"... No shit! Give me a gun! I want out! Quickly!

Why am I writing this? Because during the last 3 months I felt manipulated and I hate this feeling. I hate it when people try to control my thoughts. And this time, journalists struggled to present this book as the worst ever. I don't know why, but they were really aggressive on this subject. Why would anybody put so much effort into this?! I looked for a statement from Penguin (after all, they published the book), but I never found it. Too bad! Too sad!

Anyway, I read the book „List Of The Lost” last week. And I liked it! I recommend it. It is a book worth reading! Oh, one more thing: when you read it, use your brain. It is still legal and it does't hurt!

P.S. After reading all those articles about this book, I can't help but wonder: just how obsessed with sex British journalists really are?

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My first Morrissey concert: Bucharest (14.10.2015) - read the full concert review here!

One man's meat is another man's poison: Dylan vs Morrissey in the press