Comments on: Snark

By: Tom Runnacles

Tom Runnacles — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:14:46 +0000

‘The Edsels of the world of moveable type’ clearly ought to be the name of somebody’s blog. Any volunteers?

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 18:27:28 +0000

Oh, I don’t know, I think Nice Work is pretty good. I’m not crazy about the more farcical or semi-demi-magic realism aspects of Small World, and I do like the for once in depth portrait of a real, complicated woman in NW. Plus I like Vic, I like the culture clash between the two of them. My vote is for NW as the best of the three.

By: nnyhav

nnyhav — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:46:06 +0000

(Sorry, above should be Small World, second and best of Lodge’s trilogy.)

By: nnyhav

nnyhav — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:40:52 +0000

Oh, the humanities! (Sorry.) CJ’s essays (wellturned periodpieces) aside (and this poem in all the anthologies), his first novel (not counting his first memoir), Brilliant Creatures, is worth a look, though not up to the standard of David Lodge’s Nice Work.