Reviews and Comments

An excellent birthday gift that I read in the space of 36 hours. I enjoyed the heck out of this. Essentially John Higgs has a thesis about why The KLF torched their money. It's far-reaching both backwards and forwards in time, and into spaces of art, chaos and magic. Possibly explains why I was drawn to the band as a tween - from now on I will say yes when such forces come knocking.

I think that, despite being of British parents, I find books written with an overtly Brit-humour voice to be pretty lazy writing, like they've just let obviousness lead the way. It read like they already have a TV adaptation deal. And the het male gaze I could have done without. Still, I read this while unwell with the Bad Virus and it was just right in the sense it was an easy read and a quickly-paced yarn. I did enjoy the way they built the story around geography and place-based history.