In certain ways Doyle seems a throwback to Amis's era, when writers weren't so terror-stricken at the thought of causing offence, and so were free to enrich their writing with subtler/riskier tones. That near absence of tonal play is one of my main gripes about contemporary writing.
God I love to see a favourite line from MONEY being quoted by Rob Doyle, especcially a funny one.
In certain ways Doyle seems a throwback to Amis's era, when writers weren't so terror-stricken at the thought of causing offence, and so were free to enrich their writing with subtler/riskier tones. That near absence of tonal play is one of my main gripes about contemporary writing.