The Angry Island : Hunting the English (Paperback)

from daisiesn

This book is well-written, witty, occasionally insightful and often harsh. Just as in a number of the reviews before me, I agree that some of the observations seem subjective and unfounded; however, this is a darkly humorous stab at many things held dear and if you like your cultural critique sha...

from quiBee

A. A. Gill is a very biting, clever man. And he can be very cruel.But my goodness, is he ever funny.This is a look at what makes England England. Although he's definitely an insider, having lived there since he was a baby, he looks at England as an outsider (he was born in Scotland) and his obser...

from denmoir

This bloke is wonderful. He had the very English gift of fluent cursing (despite his insistence that he isn't English). Shakespeare was probably the best at it but Gill is up there with the rest. In this book he examines aspects of the English way of life and relates them to his theory of the ang...

from nlavery

Mixed feelings on this book - sometimes his observations seem razor sharp and deep, but at other times he loses me completely in what seems to be highly psersonal, untraceable generalisations of situations which are not representative of english people as a whole. Other people have suggested that...

from MikeFarquhar

I moved to England in September 2006, having spent the vast majority of my life living in various parts of Scotland. England's never somewhere I've spent that much time (my English geography is appallingly bad), and I figured I needed some sort of crash course in England and the English. I've rea...