E-raamat: Pedro and Ricky Come Again

Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [ Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness  -- Roger Lewis * The Times * One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we dont deserve Meades, a man who apparently has never composed a dull paragraph -- Steven Poole * The Guardian * There are more gems in this wonderful book than I could cram into a dozen of these columns  -- Simon Heffer * The Daily Telegraph * Such a useful and important critic . . . He is very much on the readers side, bringing his full wit to bear on every single thing he writes  -- Nicholas Lezard * The Spectator * As Meades puts it, who wants friendliness from books or from buildings? . . . Meades has sought to make a book shaped like his beloved Blenheim Palace: brutalist, arrogant; a moving finger  -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement * Meades has the panache and fearlessness to pull it all off * Literary Review * The consistency in quality and style are remarkable . . . Its writing that has a pop; essaying that puts its pint glass down with a slam, then offers you another. Positively curt and classy * Irish Times * This vast compendium has something to inform, amuse, shock or repulse on nearly every page' Paul Finch, Architects' Journal 'Gargantuan and whip-smart . . . Meades emerges as a fiercely independent thinker and a formidable intellect. His acerbic style carries the day, and readers bored of dry criticism will relish these piquant ripostes  * Publishers Weekly *