February 2012
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“Elitist systems claim to be meritocracies, but in such systems almost no one...”
– Daniel Dorling — Injustice
After a few days’ break following The Call of the Weird, I’ve dived into Injustice. It’s packed full of information, which makes it slow going at times but I’ve already put a few hours into it and can’t wait to read more. It’s a bit like being in a good lecture —...
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Endnotes: The Call of the Weird
Louis Theroux’s first and so far only book, published in 2005, is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long time. We’re talking out-loud laughs. The kind of laughs that make you not want to read it on the Tube because other people will think you’re crazy and stare at you but you can’t put it down and end up looking mental anyway.
It’s great. Really great.
Theroux goes back to the US to...
January 2012
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“I was running out of questions for Margold, and so, for old time’s sake, I asked...”
– Louis Theroux — The Call of the Weird