RaveTHUMP (VICE)...the best book you\'ll read about night life this year ... London\'s finest chronicler\'s account of gay life from the Romans on is a powerful reminder of the importance of pleasure ... When London\'s lights begin to dim, our enjoyment of the licentious becomes powerful, potent, and pungent. And it is that story that Ackroyd tells with his usual panache for place, character, and situation ... If you\'ve never read anything by Peter Ackroyd, imagine settling down in a pub, a proper pub, a pub that sells warm beer out of wooden kegs ... There you are, ensconced in that pub, a few empties on the table, your mouth alive with the tang and fizz of good, premium strength lager, your chest slightly wheezy from laughing too much, and you\'re stuck by the realisation that your companion is so knowledgeable, so erudite, so simply brilliant ... That\'s what reading Peter Ackroyd is like.
