To get the rage every time I hear / read anything by Will Self

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Every time he comes on radio 4 or I stumble across anything he's written I just end up angry.

Obviously he has his fans but to me he just sounds like a pompous arse who has swallowed a dictionary.

Grrrr

, I find him v annoying, although in the linked interview less so, maybe because he is talking off the cuff and therefore without his dictionary

This is hilarious

There are a lot worse things to swallow than a dictionary.

Cock and Bull - the story he chose to read very graphic bits from to a group of schoolchildren. I was 14, some audience members were 12. No doubt he was being edgy. I thought he was being a twat. Never has he dissuaded me of this.

He's pretentious and an intellectual snob, I could get over that,but it's his negativity and deriding of other public figures I find hard to swallow. Bring back Lisa Jardine Radio 4.

I like Will Self, he is interesting and funny. I also prefer J.B. Priestley to Orwell (he was very jealous of Priestley, a much more successful novelist and essayist at the time).

I find Lisa Jardine a bit annoying tbh, mostly I think it's her voice and her inflection

Lisa Jardine is damned for all eternity as far as I'm concerned for picking À la recherche du temps perdu as her favourite book and saying "but of course only in the original French"

Not read the thread but I find Will Self to be the most self aggrandising arrogant self satisfied arse that ever lived.

hth

Yanbu. I've often wondered if anyone has ever actually read one of his novels

I've read the Book of Dave

helpful?

Great Apes. I didn't like it terribly much.

You can love WS for this alone:

"Does it turn into Tolstoy at page 205?"
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