Tuesday 3 July 2012

Review: Tim Moore's "You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain: Travels Through Unloved Britain"

Continent: Europe
Genre: Non-fiction, travel
Sent in by: Paul Cheney
ISBN: 978-0224090117


Moore has excelled himself with this book. It is almost as good and as funny as french revolutions. He takes himself on a tour of some of the worst parts of Britain, in one of the worst cars made, an Austin Maestro, with the worst 358 songs as his sound track. It takes him up the east of the country around Scotland and back down the west side and into Wales. He stays at the hotels and guest houses that have only just managed to score a single star. And yet through all this he still finds things and places that he likes. Very funny, his wit (read sarcasm) is excellent, but the depths that some of these parts of the country have got to is despairing.