Unreliable Memoirs (Picador Books)
by Clive James
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Read in June, 2008
This book could have been subtitled "The Story of an Australian Penis" because a solid three-quarters of the book is focused rather narrowly on James' pre-pubescent and adolescent sex life. I was rather annoyed by this and also by James' alternately self-pitying and self-chastising tone. I also hated his rather inelegant way of ending nearly every paragraph with some high-minded literary allusion or another. However, despite these shortcomings I plowed through the book quickly and enth...more
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Read in September, 2006
James' memoir about growing up in Australia is often riotously funny -- worth reading for those passages alone. But to my eye, he sidesteps some of the deeper material he could've explored, including his relationship with his widowed mother. That lack makes the book a series of humorous childish adventures, but something less than it could have been in the hands of a writer as brilliant as James.
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Every time I read this book it makes me laugh out loud. Clive James childhood recollections are so funny and poignant it never fails to amuse and move me.
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Read in August, 2005
Great laugh - Clive takes the reader through his boyhood and adolescence in Oz.
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