Thinks... - David Lodge

I have been wondering recently if the reason I like David Lodge so much is perhaps because I have never really grown out of `edutainment` offerings of my youth. You might know the kind of novels I mean, half adventure, half textbook with the information part sometimes integrated into the story and sometimes just put in as a footnote. My favourite ones were of far-away lands, nature and science. I don`t know how popular this didactic genre was or is in the UK, but I used to love them when growing up in Poland. David Lodge is a bit like that: one actually gets quite a lot of solid knowledge out of his book and it`s usually passed on in an interesting way and ...  Read the complete review

My thoughts on Thinks... I think therefore ohmigod did I turn off the gas? This is a book about thinking - try saying that when your fist as a part! A stream of incontinence, a verbal disgression area, and sex, of course - every few seconds every man thinks of sex. The cover's great, my third favourite of the year (after Fury and Oxygen), it reminds me of the cover of an Edward de Bono book, which one though? The one about the six thinking hats? An anagram of hats perhaps? No - not this novel, this novel's novel. Can't stop thinking about sex though. [Insert something interesting here.] A campus novel set at the ...  Read the complete review

“Hello” “Who are you?” “I am your thoughts, your consciousness” “Are you really, what is that precisely?” “Well, that depends, I could be your soul, or on the other hand, I could just be a very complicated cognitive computer in your head! It really does depend on your point of view.” “Well, what am I thinking now then?” “Well, umm, giraffes, I think, but why you are thinking about giraffes, I don’t know” This is the subject for David Lodge’s new book, Thinks…, in this ambitious project, Lodge one of our ...  Read the complete review