Critical eye + Anthony Horowitz | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/criticaleye+anthony-horowitz Index en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2016 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:19:19 GMT 2016-08-30T13:19:19Z en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2016 The Guardian https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png https://www.theguardian.com Critical eye: roundup of reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/18/critical-eye-reviews-roundup 11.22.63 by Stephen King, Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk, No Higher Honour by Condoleezza Rice and Back to Work by Bill Clinton<p>Reviewers of <em>11.22.63</em>, Stephen King's story of a time-travelling teacher hoping to prevent John F Kennedy's assassination, have fallen into two camps: those unfazed by the novel's length, and those who found it the main reason to berate him and his apparently inert editor. In the latter group were the Observer's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/13/stephen-king-112263-kennedy-review" title=""><strong>Rachel Cooke</strong></a> ("a self-indulgent book that is too long … too complicated, and too barmy for words"), the Sunday Times's <strong>John Dugdale</strong> ("a bloated effort that seems based on a gross miscalculation of the reader's patience") and the Evening Standard's <a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/book/article-24008403-112263-by-stephen-king---review.do" title=""><strong>David Sexton</strong></a> ("vastly too long … it could better have been a suggestive novella"), with the Financial Times's <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ef1b6306-0a08-11e1-85ca-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1dlcayEQy" title=""><strong>Adam Lebor</strong></a> mildly pointing out that King's status means "he can write as much as he wants about whatever he likes without, it sometimes seems, an editor's critical eye". However, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/112263-by-stephen-king-6259926.html" title=""><strong>Roz Kaveney</strong></a> lauded King's "charm" in his "fierce new novel" in the Independent, and in the New York Times the filmmaker <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/11-22-63-by-stephen-king-book-review.html?scp=3&amp;sq=Stephen King&amp;st=" cse""="" title=""><strong>Errol Morris</strong></a> declared it "one of the best time-travel stories since HG Wells".</p><p>In contrast, reviewers of Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes novel, <em>The House of Silk</em>, have been of one mind, seconding the verdict of the FT's <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e57d8a54-0931-11e1-8e86-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1dlcayEQy" title=""><strong>Mark Gatiss</strong></a> – the co-creator of the updated Holmes TV drama <em>Sherlock</em> – that it "succeeds terrifically by being, for most of the time, so wonderfully right … We are in the best of hands here". The Literary Review's <strong>Jessica Mann</strong> agreed ("It's very good – dare I say as good as the original?"), as did the Independent on Sunday's <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz-6261282.html" title=""><strong>Christopher Fowler</strong></a> ("a terrific mystery … he manages to channel Conan Doyle with uncanny accuracy").</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/18/critical-eye-reviews-roundup">Continue reading...</a> Books Culture Stephen King Anthony Horowitz Condoleezza Rice Bill Clinton Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:55:08 GMT http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/18/critical-eye-reviews-roundup Guardian Staff 2011-11-18T22:55:08Z
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