Roslyn's Reviews > Lost for Words

Maybe 3.5?

This was a very quick, fun read, but I'm still not sure exactly what I read. Well, I know I was reading a satire, but there were parts that I was sure were serious; I was just never exactly sure. Most of it was pure farce, but there's a point when farce can lose its point because it's just so over-the-top. For instance, the book contained 'extracts' from the short-listed books in the (fictional) Elysian prize (apparently a send-up of the Booker) which were so over-the-top silly and representative of bad writing that they almost ceased being funny, except that that they often were in fact very funny. I'm not sure how to evaluate the novel, but I did enjoy it quite a lot.