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  • 56 of 56 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Member since 23/09/2002

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    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Breathtakingly virtuosic and knowledgeable writing

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can become rather obscure at times

    Towards the end of London Orbital, Iain Sinclair concludes “The M25 goes nowhere; it’s self-referential, postmodern, ironic. Modestly corrupt, it won’t make sense until it’s been abandoned, grown over.” And there was I thinking it was just a road. That quote, though, hints at the layer upon layer of symbolism, history, politics and art that Iain Sinclair creates and discovers in this furious, fascinating, multifaceted book. What starts as a walk around a road ends as a journey into the psyche of modern Britain. Not that he starts with such an intention. His first impulse was to exorcise the ... more
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    3 Stars Sponsored By Walkers Review with images 20/08/2011

    Advantages Advantages Educational for walkers and anyone slightly creative

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Lacks a gravitas to being a house-hold name

    London Orbital A walk around the M25 Iain Sinclair Granta Books A slow hand clap accompanied by an amazed repetitious nod towards the man who walked around the M25, Mr. Iain Sinclair; and he wrote a book about it called 'London Orbital'. Two great feats of durability; not only for the unceremonious concrete pounding Sinclair's soles had to withstood, but for the banal observations he manages to record, plus he attempts to embrace the nutritional avant-garde guises that suits the occasion. Yawn. Dull, morose settings, embroidered in a damp, grey haze, are a dreary back-drop in Iain Sinclair's ... more
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