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the University Challenge team. Hence the book’s title. But he has the small matter of avoiding the grouchy Glaswegian femmo-commie Rebecca and getting into the affections of his beloved Alice (a younger, blonder Kate Bush). Maybe letting her cheat a way onto the team would be a good start. But what if she nabs his place instead? After that it's one social faux-pas after another campus calamity in the kind of book publishers love to dub, 'riotous'.
It's all terribly latter day Adrian Mole with a hint of Lucky Jim, and initially you just want to chuck the thing across the room. And what of the claim that it’s the ‘funniest novel in years’? Well, not having had much to laugh about in the field of literature since Woody Allen stopped writing surrealist essays, it comes as almost a disappointment to say, yes, this is funny. Bloody funny actually. Will Self will hate it and the Booker judges probably use this kind of novel to cleanse their anus but for a good honest couple of nights‘ leafing, give me David Nicholls over Beryl Bainbridge any day.
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In the SiXLllOll Light. Wylie perfectly captures; what Scotland is; renowned for, The ehange of light from ‘.‘/llll(}l to auturnn pathes; coastal rocks; in a rich, red gloWing hue. Many of the irriages iuxtapose Sllllllaf textures. Shapes. people and COIOUfS. so you get the scales of a freshly caught salmon .‘xrth rippled. Sun» drenched sand; a young fI'llllll‘,’ opposne an old r;r_)uple; the riirwerrtent of gulls hovering in flight 'mth sun on water.
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