It's among the most inventive and bizarre books I've read in years, a collage of ideas that skips from Kant to the Fermi paradox via Joycean comedy and 18th-century pastiche.
A CRITIC AT LARGE about Thorstein Veblen's short, bizarre, brilliant book, "The Theory of the Leisure Class".
By Adam Gopnik The New Yorker, April 26 , 1999P. 176 A CRITIC AT LARGE about Thorstein Veblen's short, bizarre, brilliant book, "The Theory of the Leisure Class".
There was a bizarre ghostwritten book, Moments, published when his Manchester United career had just taken hold in 2007, the early pages of which are consumed by his "fondness for advertising", with stories and images from publicity shoots in Jakarta, Indonesia.
She barely makes a living as a secretary to a bizarre, fastidious book publisher (Chris Parnell), who chides her for being even five minutes late and requires her to bathe his tiny dog.
As William A. Rossi observed in his bizarre 1976 book, "The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe," "Women have always had an affinity for fragile foundations and willowy walking, and men have always responded erotically to the sight of it".
It's not a pitch for a bizarre comic-book hero — it's the Saturday schedule for David Pittsinger, who may need some super-powered vocal cords to pull it off.
As you'd expect there's also a fair amount of Thatcher-branded merchandise, including keyrings, fridge magnets, and a bizarre-looking book of sketches from Thatcher's funeral (according to the blurb, the artist, Thomas Plunkett, "has completed these sketches with an urgency that he does not try to conceal").
