Unreliable Memoirs (Unreliable Memoirs, 1)

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You would not have known, when this sinister avatar caught and slipped your startled gaze, that his mask and cape had been made by his mother. The selfishness of his relationship with his mother is viewed with ambivalent eyes - he did what he wanted, progressed with her support but seems to think he should have acted differently. A sure sign of Catholicism's fundamental evil was that it required the drinking of wine even in church, wine being mee-arly another form of bee-ar. The book belongs to a tradition in which there are other clean breasts besides Rousseau’s, and in which candour can go with ignorance of self, but can also go with the cultivation of self, with the possession of more than one self, with aliases and impersonations, and with zeals and enthusiasms to which James has elsewhere, if I haven’t misunderstood him, applied a name from the romantic heritage – Einfühlung, by which he means ‘the intellectual love for the objects of experience’.

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A colorful, entertaining,well written, sometimes wordy recount of growing up in post WW2 suburban Australia. I had found the hubcap lying in the gutter of Trumpington Street, and thought: 'That will make an ideal ashtray. An omnibus edition of the first three volumes was published under the generic title of Always Unreliable. O’Rourke finds that James „exaggerates to wonderfully honest effect“, but I was really bothered by the false modesty of constantly applying negative superlatives to himself. His main bereavement was the loss of his father, who was captured by the Japanese during the war, and killed in an air crash while being repatriated.His entry in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in Englishends, "Morbidly interested in murder, spiritualism and graveyards, and depressive in temperament, he drowned himself near Lowestoft. I was one of those who suggested that our book club read this, in our elaborate democratic process of choosing books from the library group reading list, but once I started in I couldn’t stand it. His book is like other memoirs of modern times in assuming and acknowledging that while fiction may be treated as a form of autobiography, autobiography may be practised as a form of fiction. But the passage is not so much instruction as expression: these words are a way of communicating the enormity of the occasion, the dimensions of an ordeal. This book could have been subtitled "The Story of an Australian Penis" because a solid three-quarters of the book is focused rather narrowly on James' pre-pubescent and adolescent sex life.

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In 1995 he set up Watchmaker Productions to produce The Clive James Show for ITV, and a subsequent series launched the British career of singer and comedian Margarita Pracatan. In a 2006 interview in The Sunday Times, James said of himself: "I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. I was going down for the third time but I can distinctly remember the moment she launched herself into the air, describing a parabolic trajectory which involved, at one point, a total eclipse of the sun.

For many years, until mid-2014, he wrote the weekly television critique page in the "Review" section of the Saturday edition of The Daily Telegraph.