allanderek reviewed Days Like These by Brian Bilston
Completely pointless
1 star
Sorry, but I hated almost every page of this. I'm not a big fan of poetry in general, and this was a Christmas gift. I thought the vast majority of the poems were simply childish, and I was generally just hoping to get it over with. Many were based on a single pun, quite often changing the lyrics of a song. These poems went on for several verses despite the whole thing just being a very mild pun on the title. Other times the humour just didn't hit. I think maybe twice in the whole 365 days, I maybe had a little giggle or thought something was genuinely clever, one poem can be read from top to bottom but has the opposite meaning if read bottom to top, which was kind of cool.
In fairness, I think I'm just the wrong audience for this kind of thing. I'm sure others …
Sorry, but I hated almost every page of this. I'm not a big fan of poetry in general, and this was a Christmas gift. I thought the vast majority of the poems were simply childish, and I was generally just hoping to get it over with. Many were based on a single pun, quite often changing the lyrics of a song. These poems went on for several verses despite the whole thing just being a very mild pun on the title. Other times the humour just didn't hit. I think maybe twice in the whole 365 days, I maybe had a little giggle or thought something was genuinely clever, one poem can be read from top to bottom but has the opposite meaning if read bottom to top, which was kind of cool.
In fairness, I think I'm just the wrong audience for this kind of thing. I'm sure others would like this. I thought it was a complete waste of my time.
