Wild

One hell of a read

A fitting tribute to one of our national treasures

a highly compelling and involving tale of an actor at work.

Whether taken on its own or with the first volume, this is a magnificent work of biography... A stunning achievement

Walsh's scrupulousness (also evident in this volume's predecessor) in contextualising and considering quotes, hearsays and other evidence reveals a more complete, complex picture... But what emerges most powerfully is a penetrating vision of a creative mind, of how it made its decisions and adopted its stances, of how, often, it didn't quite understand itself

Walsh's eloquence, clarity and grasp of the composer's cultural milieu mean that this book is always gripping

"Must never end up like Bobby Gillespie" It's not a bad strategy for life, and happily one the ferociously talented Luke Haines continues to adhere to in his follow-up to Bad Vibes. Resuming from where that excoriatingly brilliant book left off...Grimly amusing.

The angrier Mark Kermode gets, the funnier he is; good news then that this book is FURIOUS

[A] laugh-out-loud account that will tickle the funny bone of any film fanatic

Witty and incisive

Cutting and witty

[Kermode] clearly has a profound love of film and the depth of knowledge to go with it

An angry blast about the state of cinema-going

Kermode sits in the stalls peeking through his fingers at what we’re served up on the silver screen and motormouthing about bad cinema in a frank and funny counterblast to all the Hollywood hype

The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is the film critic’s anguished cri de coeur against overpriced 3D film tickets and soulless cinemas ... often very funny and enlivened with wonderful digressions borne out of a lifetime’s movie-going

Difficult to ignore

a spritely, spirited tome ... with welcome doses of spicy self-deprecation and fascinating cultural history.