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The Life of Pie Writing your autography in terms of the food you ate is a neat idea, and it was great to read about so many different types of food I remmeber from my youth. The book is a little inconsistent though: in the middle section the food takes a back seat to the goings on in his family life. Also, the book got weirder towards the end, as though he was running out of steam. He tantalises us with brief glimpses of his love life and then leaves us wondering. And the book ends very abruptl
Gifted Writer and Foodie There is one thing this book will do for you, if nothing else - deliver nostalgia by the bucketload and help you remember those foods we enjoyed back then that are probably too embarrassing to recall now. How many of us adored (and still do) butterscotch Angel Delight, Dairylea cheese triangles and glass after glass of cream soda or dandelion and burdock? Through reading this book and observing him in his occasional television appearances, I have come to be rather fond of Nigel Slater's understated,... more info
It isn't Miz-Lit This autobiography could so easily have been one of those catalogues of unremitting childhood misery that are a fashionable genre these days. Fortunately you are so busy smiling in recognition - and laughing - that the tearful moments are gossamer strands rather than the Slough of Despond. It's very deceptive - it looks like a book of short episodic chapters that can be dipped into randomly. However that means you would fail to recognise a couple of sentences as the punch-line that suddenly illuminates... more info
I liked him! I have just finished Toast and loved it. I hadn't expected it to be so revealing. Some other critics on this page have called the author an unpleasant snob. But my heart bled for the gentle, bewildered boy living a cold English household. The stepmother, Joan, is described very vividly and I can only guess why one reviewer would identify with her. That the father beat him up for a spill on the carpet and threatened him with going into care says it all. The child who tells the story seems to me perfectly... more info
