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The Third Policeman is one of Mark Watson's funniest books: it “resembles a mad stand-up at work, and it was a real factor in setting me on my path to doing what I now do. [...] Straight into a surreal horror with a sensational opening line, it then takes them on a bicycle journey into the absurd.

aug 25, 2025, 5:03 am • 7 1

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camusgoalie.bsky.social @camusgoalie.bsky.social

I saw Mark Watson’s show in the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. It was OK, 7/10 maybe. Better described as rambling rather than tightly constructed on digressions within digressions. But good that he’s an adherent!

aug 25, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ross @flicksfan.bsky.social

And Sterne too; a man of taste in humour and oddity in literature.

aug 25, 2025, 5:27 am • 2 0 • view