Maybe he can write, but it didn't look like he could tell much of a story.
I found the piece to be thin, lacking much substance and failing totally to fulfil the promise he made to the reader at the start, "The Double Life...". I left unsatisfied and feeling like it was no more than a puff piece to promote the biography -- nothing more than a thinly veiled ad.
Absolutely. I had the extraordinary pleasure of picking up, on a whim, the novel The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. Unaware of his father's prestige and budding recognition as an author in his own right, I found the book itself to be a lucid and gripping read the entire way through.
Hate to sound like an advertisement, but I consider it to be the most fun I've had with a story in a long, long time.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadI found the piece to be thin, lacking much substance and failing totally to fulfil the promise he made to the reader at the start, "The Double Life...". I left unsatisfied and feeling like it was no more than a puff piece to promote the biography -- nothing more than a thinly veiled ad.
My time was wasted.
http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/the-real-subject-of-john-...
Hate to sound like an advertisement, but I consider it to be the most fun I've had with a story in a long, long time.