{"id":130,"date":"2010-02-18T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-02-18T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:50:55","slug":"tony-beckton-beyond-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Tony Beckton — ‘Beyond Reason’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been involved in quite a few reading sessions where people (including me) have read out loud pieces of writing. They can be quite intense and draining experiences so I found it hilarious to watch a series of piss takes of the whole reading aloud process on ‘Bellamy’s People’ tonight. The book in question was probably by the least literary character of the whole lot — Tony Beckton — an East End Kray wannabee (hilariously played by Simon Day). The book is called ‘Beyond Reason’ and it’s an autobiography\/confessional about his life of crime — supposedly forty or so years banged up in prisons and mental hospitals. The prose style is a clever blend of monosyllabic repetition (‘we changed cars’) and some incongrously flowery prose about his anguish. It also alternates between the banal and the surreal — a rhesus monkey is used as an accessory in a robbery and cheese and Christmas cake are weapons used in prison.<\/p>\n

It can be seen for the moment on the iPlayer<\/a>— Tony Beckton’s reading starts about 15 minutes of the way through and there’s about 5 short clips spread over the remaining 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been involved in quite a few reading sessions where people (including me) have read out loud pieces of writing. They can be quite intense and draining experiences so I found it hilarious to watch a series of piss takes of the whole reading aloud process on ‘Bellamy’s People’ tonight. The book in question was … <\/p>\n

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