High John the Conqueror

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Can anyone - presumably you British Dopers - tell me more about Jim Younger’s High John the Conqueror?

The review on Amazon.uk is intriguing, but not very edifying.*

Utterly beyond words, comprehension and any kind of paraphrasis, admittedly rendering this review somewhat futile, yet still, pressing on, I will conclude by saying, my tiddlywinks, that High John and his band of fiddling Milton loving flagellant anarchists provides many, well several, hours of the finest literary entertainment you are ever likely to find this side of Charles Dickens on the one hand, that side of Thomas Pynchon on the other, thus rendering it a book of the most unexpected and estimable quality, a fullsome breath of fresh hallucenogenic air in the soapy quagmire of unoriginality that is the hallmark of virtually every given human endeavour.

*Also, it’s proof that you shouldn’t try writing like this unless you can spell all the big words you use.

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Can anyone - presumably you British Dopers - tell me more about Jim Younger’s High John the Conqueror?

This review seems informative: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1815414,00.html

As does this one: http://www.authortrek.com/high_john_the_conqueror_page.html

And this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23109-2187271,00.html

And this: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1090274.ece

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Thank you, but I take it you haven’t read the book yourself.

I was wondering if it’s too completely British for an American to appreciate.