Great Stuff. I need this in Kindle.Oh dear: this book is typical Sinclair - a bizarre mix of intermittent brilliant sentences decorating a mush of overwritten, self-indulgent twaddle. At its best it's tremendous, but most of it I found tedious and digressive. Distasteful at times, too: a weird sort of reverence for 'characters' like the despicable gangsters the Kray twins and their circle. And also Sinclair is capable of cynical elitism as when he writes of the kinds of working class urbanites who keep vicious dogs. Too much occult mysticism and ostentatious display of erudition, too. But that's just my opinion. He is a good writer - but needs a judicious editor.I found this book really hard going, I don't like his style of writing and it's over 20 years old so a lot of the anecdotes don't mean much to me as I can't remember that far back. I've given up and I won't be attempting London OrbitalGreatHow to describe Iain Sinclair to someone who's unfamiliar with his work? He's an indefatigable flaneur, pounding the streets of London observing the minutiae of life. Reports on his travels form the basis of most of his non-fiction works, including Lights Out for the Territory, which was one of his first books. But he's also deeply involved in the arts scene, particularly what you might call the less-than-A-grade parts of it, and all of his books suddenly veer off from reports of his wanderings into lengthy essays on one or other of his artistic buddies. We're not talking the Damien Hursts or Tracey Emins here -- rather, it's slightly offbeat and critically unacclaimed names like Brian Catling and Rachel Whiteread that constantly crop up.Sinclair's writing style is also hard to pin down. As he himself admits, he never quite knows when to stop. Sentences without verbs. Big words that have you reaching for the dictionary closely followed by slang terms straight outta Hackney.I've only read Lights Out once so far. My usual experience with Sinclair is that I enjoy his books more on a second and even third go-round, and the rating I'm giving this partly reflects my expectation that the same will be the case this time. I suspect a lot of readers won't even make it though the book once, but if you want to see London and Londoners portrayed by a unique voice, Lights Out is worth a small investment of your time and treasure.Was interested,but personally, found the book too dense for my taste. I was lead to it by watching Patrick Keiller's 'London' which was a fascinating personal journey round London over a year.