Advantages: Inventive, ambitious, some fantastic ideas and characters. Disadvantages: Difficult writing style to get into, loses its way badly towards the end.
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What if this book had been made out of metal to ensure it outlived its author? If, five hundred years later, with catastrophic floods having submerged all but Britain?s highest points, the book were rediscovered? And what if (the last one, I promise!) the words of the Book of Dave were taken as gospel, and life on the small island of Ham organised according to its decrees?
Will Self?s 2006 novel looks at what happens when (in the author?s own words) ?people follow something just because it is written in an old book?. In this post-flood world, the residents of Ham (?Hamsters?) abide strictly by the wishes of Dave ? or at least, what ...
Advantages: Full of entertaining shows... Disadvantages: ...full of repeats
Of course, it's the wonderful 'Dave'...the artist formerly known as UKTV G2. Not exactly the most exciting of sounding television channels, so they glamourised it...by called it 'Dave'...because everyone knows a Dave.
The concept of the channel is simply a station airing predominantly repeats of entertainment and comedy shows. It doesn't air 24-hours a day, instead it tends to broadcast until approximately 3am each night, and then restarts at 7am, with a bit of mind-boggling Teleshopping thrown in there for good measure.
But what does it show? Well during the day it plays repeats of entertainment shows such as Top Gear, Ray Mear's Extreme Survival, Trawlermen, Traffic Cops and Fifth Gear; all seemingly quite 'manly' shows aimed at blokes called 'Dave' presumably...
As the day's schedule moves on it tends to focus ...
carl.mcqueen 30.10.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dave
Advantages: Thought-provoking, intelligent lyrics, powerful music Disadvantages: Can make for uncomfortable listening
Richie James Edwards, Manic Street Preachers lyricist and guitarist, was last seen leaving the London Embassy Hotel at 7:00am on Weds 1st February 1995. What happened after that is shrouded in mystery and rumour but what is certain is that his genius as a writer will live on in the form of The Holy Bible, the Manics' third and finest album.
A bleakly disturbing vision of Richie's mind, the album makes for uncomfortable listening with subjects covering the full range of man's corruption, evil and sickness and will certainly not be to everyone's taste. "I don't see it as a record", Nicky Wire (bassist and lyricist) would say later "I see it as a state of mind".
The Holy Bible will always be remebered as Richie's album, but James Dean Bradfield's contribution should not be overlooked. In a predominantly lyric-driven album, he barks ...
