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bhirts's review against another edition
This book was written for me by me, so what I can I say, I love and scorn it the way I love and scorn myself. It’s exciting, refreshing, dis-alienating [?] that a book like this can exist, be written but also the very fact of “enjoying” it is a symptom of a deeper character “flaw”... one has the under the surface impression that pleasure one derives from the reading is akin to picking a scab or tounging a sore tooth.
inappropriate's review against another edition
5.0
A must read for aspiring writers, but skip chapter one. Most of the authors he discusses are unknown today.
markp's review
3.0
A time capsule of sorts, assessing the novelists of early-to-mid 20th-century Britain, what it takes to write a novel (according to Connolly, who admittedly never did), and ending with a short memoir of Connolly's schooldays and rise to prominence as a critic. Perhaps nothing more than a curiosity these days, but I enjoy the immersion in a bygone literary world.
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