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Category Name : Humour
Author Name : Blind Faith
Publisher Name : It's telling that not a single positive review adorns the cover of Blind Faith. Normally, Ben Elton's books are covered in them so I think it's fair to assume they would be there if there were any. But their absence is not surprising because this is terrible. Elton has identified two trends he doesn't like: the information age in which nothing is sacred, nothing is private and the powers that be know everything about everybody; and the rise of reactionary religious intolerance which rejects reason and science (everything from global warming denial to creationism to refusing vaccinations). Both subjects ripe for satire. But trying to crowbar those two trends together it makes no sense whatsoever, and Elton has abandoned his own reason if he seriously thinks it does. A society dominated by religious intolerance would undoubtedly be unpleasant, but it is not going to be one where everyone is expected to expose as much flesh as possible and post their sex tapes on the web. These are things that religions rail against. Yes, I know the book is satire but for it to have any validity it has to make sense, to be recognisably the logical conclusion of where we are going. Blind Faith is just nonsense. But even if you overlook the logical failings, there are many other faults. Elton (not for the first time) is far too busy inviting us to bask in his insight and incisiveness to bother about much of a story. Consequently, very little really happens until the final eighth. He treats the reader like a complete idiot, bludgeoning every point home rather than leaving us to draw our own conclusions. The obsession with sex and swearing is present and correct (he really should give it a rest for just one book). And the fact that everyone talks like the most irritating characters from Dead Famous and Chart Throb is enough to make the novel poisonously annoying in itself.
Minimum Price : £ 4.19
Category Name : Humour
Author Name : Blind Faith
Publisher Name : It's telling that not a single positive review adorns the cover of Blind Faith. Normally, Ben Elton's books are covered in them so I think it's fair to assume they would be there if there were any. But their absence is not surprising because this is terrible. Elton has identified two trends he doesn't like: the information age in which nothing is sacred, nothing is private and the powers that be know everything about everybody; and the rise of reactionary religious intolerance which rejects reason and science (everything from global warming denial to creationism to refusing vaccinations). Both subjects ripe for satire. But trying to crowbar those two trends together it makes no sense whatsoever, and Elton has abandoned his own reason if he seriously thinks it does. A society dominated by religious intolerance would undoubtedly be unpleasant, but it is not going to be one where everyone is expected to expose as much flesh as possible and post their sex tapes on the web. These are things that religions rail against. Yes, I know the book is satire but for it to have any validity it has to make sense, to be recognisably the logical conclusion of where we are going. Blind Faith is just nonsense. But even if you overlook the logical failings, there are many other faults. Elton (not for the first time) is far too busy inviting us to bask in his insight and incisiveness to bother about much of a story. Consequently, very little really happens until the final eighth. He treats the reader like a complete idiot, bludgeoning every point home rather than leaving us to draw our own conclusions. The obsession with sex and swearing is present and correct (he really should give it a rest for just one book). And the fact that everyone talks like the most irritating characters from Dead Famous and Chart Throb is enough to make the novel poisonously annoying in itself.
Minimum Price : £ 4.19
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