‘So I was smacked out on the Prime minister’s jet…big deal.’
Feeding Frenzy is Will Self’s (Cock & Bull, My idea of fun, Quantity theory of insanity) third collection of journalism and showcases the British writer’s various pieces that have appeared in Elle, The Guardian, The Times, Building Design to mention a few.
What struck me the most while reading the collection was that Self is an extension of my-self. I had always wanted to write critical analysis parading as restaurant reviews of such eating establishments such as McDonald’s and Pizza Express. Self beat me to it by a decade. Which is all very good…even if it makes me go green.
This collection has something for everyone. When he is not talking of Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Salman Rushdie and their works…Self is engaged in visiting gay nightclubs for thrills, watching Oasis at Earl’s Court, tripping on acid in a English restaurants, dismantling politicians and their ways, dissecting the idiot-box and the idiots in it…in short everything. His is a pen that mixes the political anger of Thompson with the bohemian understanding of Wilde; the reeling eye of Roger Ebert with the leering ears of Lester Bangs…and the end result is much sharper than a sword.
If you like your reading material to be out of the world and yet right into the core of it then this is the book for you. Although sometimes hard to read because of the cacophony of diverse themes, motifs and linguistic bends; the book will not let you down. It is written in a literary frenzy which could satisfy the appetite of the most voracious of readers.
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