This is another collection of occasional articles, a follow up to - The Moronic Inferno.
This also consists of reviews and interviews of the famous and not so famous. There are also a couple of travel pieces thrown in as well.
This collection does not have the consistency of the previous one and some of it has a " scraping the bottom of the filing cabinet " feel. As in - Cannes - where he rambles on about topless beaches, he even apologises in a new preface for the standard of the article.
Most unforgivable of all he does a very disparaging review of a Rolling Stones concert. This is a mortal sin.
When he is good Amis is excellent as in - Chess: Kasporov v Karpov - on the world of chess. I found out it that cheating has been rampant in chess for hundreds of years, not out and out stealing of pieces, but very heavy gamesmanship, fascinating stuff.
This is still worth the read but not as good as other articles that he has put together, but not a bad Sunday filler.
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