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"Engleby" is a prose piece of text and follows the life of Mike Engleby, a intellectually precocious but socially ill-adapted student at Cambridge in the 1970s as he frets about the creeping homogeneity of contemporary life. "God I hate the present," he declares. "It has no depth of field; no context." The book was written in the early part of the 21st century with the benefit of thirty years of hindsight and has some similarities to the life of its bestselling author, Sebastian Faulks. Faulks speaks directly to the reader in diary entries in an attempt to help the reader understand the eccentric traits of Engleby. He does this by purposely missing out key points such as the university he attends and recalling only seemingly negative memories that would affect the student. Faulks, purposely doesn't try to charm the reader which perhaps backfires on him somewhat. As the book is written...

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