omg stop trying to make List of The Lost happen! it is not going to happen!
Have you seen that?
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/books/best-books-of-2015
Peter Fleming, professor of business and society, City University London
(...) Everybody hated Morrissey’s novel List of the Lost (Penguin), but it’s brilliant. This allegory takes us back to 1975, and students of Thatcherism and Reaganomics will note the significance. Four young athletes encounter their grotesque future in a forest and murder him. Human qualities are thrown on the bonfire, making this laconic fable the perfect Orwellian companion for the neoliberal age.
The guy seems like a serious academic. I’d be interested in hearing how he would defend his opinion. Not that I think it would change my opinion on the book’s literary merits though! He’s published articles recently about work - the lyrics to Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now seems right up his academic alley.
Explain, not defend. Why would he need to defend his own opinion? Because most other people, including you, have a different opinion? What a sad logic.