From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Henry"  wrote in message   
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   > Edward Belsky  wrote:   
   >   
   > > God do I love Burgess.   
   >   
   > The initial exposure, in limited doses, can be heady stuff but the   
   > cumulative effect is cloyingly artsy-cutesy.   
      
   I don't agree. I think Burgess is clever and punchy most of the time - he   
   suffers because he did a lot and did more than one thing - often despised.   
   You'd like Roger Lewis's bio of Burgess which is a breathtaking 400 page   
   slag-off. I liked it to because the authorial voice was so exasperated and   
   bilious it had me howling with laughter - but it never altered my admiration   
   for Burgess.   
      
   His two volumes of memoirs are faves of mine.   
      
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