false 30919 23 Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. <b>Scoop</b> is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story. 1001166 1937 Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics) total:993|5:6|4:9|3:8|2:3|1:1| 993 3775 1746 116 4 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 08:00:32 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 08:11:30 -0700 2007
File this under guilty pleasures. I'm, well outraged isn't the right word, made weary by the dreariness of the other reviews of this book: plot summaries, gestures towards its transhistorical narratives (or towards its capturing that peculiar moment before the Nazis i...more...]]> 4 3 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 07 00:54:31 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 07 01:02:34 -0800 2007
A quick read, "Scoop" is about a man "named" John Boot gets accidentally sent to Ishmaila as a foreign correspondent. The fellow manages to report some news after blazi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Dec 07 14:41:24 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 15:15:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Oct 26 14:21:04 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 14:27:38 -0700 2007
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Waugh finished this parody of the Ethiopian and Spanish wars in 1937. His novel turns these emergencies into farces. In retrospect, Waugh seems li...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 07:28:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 07:30:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 08 07:20:20 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 07:23:52 -0800 2008 Part 2: 1 star
Part 3: 4 stars

An overlong middle act of deeply un-trenchant imperial observations and tiresome politicking, bookended by two arias of pure virtuoso satire, averages out to three stars. Waugh makes no bones about loving words more than he could e...more...]]> 4 1 false true Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 14:16:23 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 00:50:06 -0700 2009
A NEW Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical 1938 novel.

Unambitious writer William Boot is mistaken for a successful journalist and sent to cover a war in Africa. There he teams up with a roguish agency reporter called Corker and the pair go hunting for...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 23:14:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 23:20:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 1978 Wed Sep 09 08:25:17 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 08:32:55 -0700 2009
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