Customer Reviews
Alan Clark ! What a man! - By: J. Potter, 18 Oct 2004 
This was brought just before the release of the TV series as an attempt at something a little different but had been sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time.
I only started reading it because it seemed the best of a bad bunchin my holiday book bag but no more than 10 pagesin I was laughing out loud, smiling inanely to myself, & generally revelingin everything that this man was.
He was a lot of things, both good & bad which are well documented, but for all his 'qualities' his charm shines through via his amazing first perspective writing style.
It was with great sadness & reluctance that I read the last pages having built a great affection for this character & an educationin the mechanisms of government.
If there is one thing I would knock of this book is that there is quite obviously a lot of interesting detail missing which I assume was far to delicate at the time.
I will get the other book of Diaries & the audio book of these diaries read by the great man himself but will treasure this through the years. Magical.
Superbly read by the 'noel coward' of politics - By: diy3@dircon.co.uk, 21 Jun 2001 Alan Clark reads from his diaries. His voice & intonation are sublime. The epitome of an old Etonian, he nonetheless effs & blinds his way through the cream of British political establishment of the 80s & 90s. Sadly this is a rather clumsy edit of the written diaries & leaves many references incomprehensible to the untutored ear (for example TK means Tom King, The Lady means Maggie Thatcher). There are no political autobiographies that make you laugh out loud except AK Diaries & few that give you an unexpurgated view of the personalities. No quarter sought or givenin this giant of audio books... Now he is no longer with us, when I finished this tape yesterday I was deeply sad that he did not record the whole of his diaries. Scoop up this gem now - because you're worth it & so was he.
