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Jolyon Wrote a Book

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Igneococcus · 22/04/2023 07:34

I'm not sure if he mentions his battles with GC women in it because the review doesn't mention it but I thought some people here would like to read the review. The reviewer doesn't think much of it and that is putting it mildly :)
"Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC" (I had to google "bloviating"):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dc992f50-dd24-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=4a9c3689a3318860ea241c733ce5a728

Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC

The word “Twitter” appears but once in the index of Jolyon Maugham’s memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath. But the whole book is very much

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dc992f50-dd24-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=4a9c3689a3318860ea241c733ce5a728

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RufustheSpecuIatingreindeer · 22/04/2023 09:38

Now people are mentioning the picture thats quite the lean he’s got there, do you think he sort of ‘fell’ into position or was there someone going ‘back a bit, bit more, bit more…’

Annaissleeping · 22/04/2023 09:28

Oh how I have laughed and laughed and laughed at this.

Thank you Yuan Yi Zhu - also I had a good chuckle as he linked to the article on Twitter with 'My review of the most important legal book of 2023'

😂😂😂😂😂

Some of the glee on Twitter over this is marvellous to read. Thank you OP for linking to this.

ValerieDoonican · 22/04/2023 09:25

Yeah @LizzieSiddal the photo pose is of an abusive man stopping you from leaving because you are required to submit to more if his pomposity (or worse). A bit Raab perhaps? Very unpleasant. Odd that he thought it a good one to choose.

Bleepbloopbluurp · 22/04/2023 09:23

Shelefttheweb · 22/04/2023 09:12

Racist? Yuan Yi Zhu against Jolyon?

Perhaps pontificators are a race now.

Bleepbloopbluurp · 22/04/2023 09:22

Oh that review is brutal. "Does Penguin no longer employ editors?" has me crying.

Shelefttheweb · 22/04/2023 09:12

Racist? Yuan Yi Zhu against Jolyon?

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 22/04/2023 09:03

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 08:58

Seems like the review has touched a nerve with our Jolyon 🤣

is anyone 'pro-climate change'?

SunnieShine · 22/04/2023 09:02

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 08:53

Puts him in the same category as Boris Johnson.

Arf.

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I see your "Arf" and raise you "Arf, arf" ...😁

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 22/04/2023 09:02

oh man that was a fun read, thanks for posting

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 08:58

Seems like the review has touched a nerve with our Jolyon 🤣

Jolyon Wrote a Book
Clymene · 22/04/2023 08:55

I heard the reviewer being interviewed on times radio on the radio last night and they were laughing about how bad the book is.

How funny! Couldn't happen to a nicer man Grin

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 08:53

chilling19 · 22/04/2023 08:31

'Bloviating' - great word, and accurate. 😂

Puts him in the same category as Boris Johnson.

Arf.

SidewaysOtter · 22/04/2023 08:52

WickedSerious · 22/04/2023 07:57

Stupid boy.

Said in the withering manner of Capt Mainwearing Grin

Chersfrozenface · 22/04/2023 08:50

So the TL:DR for this book by the kimino'd one is "I'm a genius and a hero and the law should be what I say it is".

Have I got that right?

SinnerBoy · 22/04/2023 08:50

He looks as though he's about to break out in a song.

I'm a little teapot...

drspouse · 22/04/2023 08:49

Can I go and clap this reviewer on the back?

WickedSerious · 22/04/2023 08:43

Whaeanui · 22/04/2023 08:31

😂😂 oh O’Brien recommends it?! That’s so funny

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He would wouldn't he?

The little weirdo.

ArabeIIaScott · 22/04/2023 08:37

It's a hard knock life, Jolyon.

ThisIsUncool · 22/04/2023 08:36

An excellent review. And bloviating is a very useful word that describes many politicians (and a few former colleagues of mine).

NashvilleQueen · 22/04/2023 08:33

First glance at the photo without my specs on and I thought he was filling his car up with petrol.

Great review. He's a pompous condescending misogynist idiot who has been indulged far too long.

Whaeanui · 22/04/2023 08:31

NecessaryScene · 22/04/2023 08:25

Just managed to recover my breath enough from the opening sentence to actually go read the review and now losing it again because of the cover.

'Inspiring and illuminating' - James O'Brien

😂😂 oh O’Brien recommends it?! That’s so funny

chilling19 · 22/04/2023 08:31

'Bloviating' - great word, and accurate. 😂

ArabeIIaScott · 22/04/2023 08:29

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind

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