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Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful that it may be their turn to be mercilessly sent up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow he turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eTrainspotting \u003c\/i\u003evia \u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThose who have never quite got around to reading \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies \u003c\/i\u003ewill be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. 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