Book of the week
Consonant reader,
I've just finished reading 'The Stainless Steel Rat' by Harry Harrison. Quite good. It would make an interesting film I think.
I'm getting a bit paranoid about books at the moment, in so much as I don't want them to ever run out.
It would be a really shit world we lived in if there were no more books ever made or if in the night all the books got up and left us. I'd be so bored, as I'm sure you would be too.
This fear of text- loss all stems from going to Turkey a few weeks back and reading all my books halfway through the holiday. I approached the whole thing far too fast and ended up with nothing to read. In Turkey, at least where we were staying there were no bookstores, no Waterstones, Ottakars or even a flippin' Woolies. At least I could have bough a magazine.
But no. I ended up reading the back of food labels and even my partners book, over her shoulder which kind of annoyed her. (Theres no 'kind' of, I irritated her to the point of madness). The 4 hour flight back was painful to say the least. I even considered writing a book to while away the hours.
I'm going to Croatia with my family in a few weeks time. This time I've collected a load of books (ammo) to take with me.
The books are on everything from the life and times of Peter Cook, some Stevie King I haven't read which is rare by god ('The Talisman', Black House'), David Nobb's Reggie Perrin books, Richard Adam's 'Shardik'(He who wrote 'Watership Down', bright eyes), some Iain Banks ('The Crow Road', 'Whit') and some Iain M. Banks ('Consider Phlebas'), Glen David Gold's 'Carter Beats the Devil', Louise Wener's 'Goodnight Steve McQueen' (-yes, her from Sleeper), 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Gao Xingjian's 'Soul Mountain'.
Now that should keep me busy.
'The Stainless Steel Rat' was part of that collection, but I've read it now so it goes in the ol' outbox...
...NEXT!!
*the sound of books being mentally devoured*
B x.
I've just finished reading 'The Stainless Steel Rat' by Harry Harrison. Quite good. It would make an interesting film I think.
I'm getting a bit paranoid about books at the moment, in so much as I don't want them to ever run out.
It would be a really shit world we lived in if there were no more books ever made or if in the night all the books got up and left us. I'd be so bored, as I'm sure you would be too.
This fear of text- loss all stems from going to Turkey a few weeks back and reading all my books halfway through the holiday. I approached the whole thing far too fast and ended up with nothing to read. In Turkey, at least where we were staying there were no bookstores, no Waterstones, Ottakars or even a flippin' Woolies. At least I could have bough a magazine.
But no. I ended up reading the back of food labels and even my partners book, over her shoulder which kind of annoyed her. (Theres no 'kind' of, I irritated her to the point of madness). The 4 hour flight back was painful to say the least. I even considered writing a book to while away the hours.
I'm going to Croatia with my family in a few weeks time. This time I've collected a load of books (ammo) to take with me.
The books are on everything from the life and times of Peter Cook, some Stevie King I haven't read which is rare by god ('The Talisman', Black House'), David Nobb's Reggie Perrin books, Richard Adam's 'Shardik'(He who wrote 'Watership Down', bright eyes), some Iain Banks ('The Crow Road', 'Whit') and some Iain M. Banks ('Consider Phlebas'), Glen David Gold's 'Carter Beats the Devil', Louise Wener's 'Goodnight Steve McQueen' (-yes, her from Sleeper), 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Gao Xingjian's 'Soul Mountain'.
Now that should keep me busy.
'The Stainless Steel Rat' was part of that collection, but I've read it now so it goes in the ol' outbox...
...NEXT!!
*the sound of books being mentally devoured*
B x.