Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Thursday, 7 May 2026

"Zoo time" by Howard Jacobson

An audio book. I bailed out about a third of the way through. The monologuing was too slow. Easy targets. Easy jokes.

Other reviews

  • Edmund Gordon (Zoo Time is a 400-page tantrum directed at reading groups, Amazon reviews, three-for-two offers, Kindle, Richard and Judy, graphic novels, vampire novels, Scandinavian crime novels, declining advances, declining standards of grammar, declining interest in language and psychology, and much else besides. ... Since Zoo Time deals with character, setting and plot in an entirely cursory way, you can only really engage with it as a piece of pure rhetoric – and yet its complaints are either unfocused or plain unconvincing)

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