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Nice guys finish first Friday Night Clubby Harry Ritchie 328 pp, Hodder Here we have one of a tentative new breed of novel introducing a tentative new breed of male, 36 years old and already psyching himself up to leave his teenage years behind, shedding the chrysalis of Ageing Boy to flutter the modest pastel wings of Sensitive Man. Here also is one of that less-than-tentative new breed of male author who hope to cash in handsomely by offering women a gratifying I-thought-as-much archeological dig into the muddy layers of mens egos. (The author compares favourably to Nick Hornby. ) And so to our entertaining tale: three not-so-young, not-so-successful Scottish lads are looking forward to their regular night out with the love of their lives, an &# 252; ber-lad named Rob (flash city job, flash bachelor pad, a calendar of nubile blondes made flesh). But Rob has done a runner and despite the fact theyve known him for 20 years, it now takes mere days to figure out there was no &# 252; ber-lad, only a big fat blob of bullshit. The women-pleasing moral of the story is that the good life as portrayed by Rob (sex, drugs, dosh, no wedding rings) is just a delinquent male fantasy, and the only thing for men to do is to settle down with some nice sensible woman.
The sop to the male reader is that the boy in the book who lands said sensible woman is a balding ginger runt, which proves you dont have to be an oil-painting providing youre a reliable sort of a chap who agrees with everything your girlfriend says. The authors other sop to the male is that all the sensible girls in the book have nice hair and lovely tits, as if theyd trotted straight out of a novel by Kingsley Amis. Will the genre last? Possibly. Its a bit of a con, with all the humble kowtowing to female superiority, but it panders nicely to womens age-old contempt for men, and to mens new-fangled uneasiness with themselves. Will its author last?
Harry Ritchie, erstwhile literary editor of the Sunday Times, tells a lot of good jokes, is a dab hand at cutting observation and knows how to turn on the charm. Yep, hell last.
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