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August 7, 2009

Book browsing

Filed under: British life, Observations — cafecortado @ 8:16 pm
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There I was leafing through a book. At long last I’ve stopped feeling guilty about using a bookstore as a library – afraid I no longer have the pennies to fork out on luxuries. Anyway, my attention was drawn to a chapter on beggars – the book was by that jovial chap Jeremy Clarkson. He was advising beggars to leave the city and reside instead in the countryside. Apparently they’d avoid all that stress and pollution, plus be able to eat fresh fruit and veg. Now normally I enjoy reading or listening to Clarkson, but I was not amused in this case. Apart from the fact there’d be no-one around to cadge loose change from, I suspect it’d be a lot more dangerous in the countryside, what with all those gun-toting farmers determined to clear dodgy types “oRF their land”. Then I calmed down and realised I’d been had. Very funny Jeremy. Please stick to gags about British Leyland 70s cars in future!

In other words, I’m back blogging on this WordPress thingy. Will it last? All things end – let’s see what happens!

January 12, 2008

Fear of important books

Filed under: British life — cafecortado @ 4:46 pm
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If I’m reading for pleasure I tend to read crime novels set in the current era (my favourite are the Rebus series by Ian Rankin). Today, thinking I’d change my genre, I popped into the local charity shop (excellent for cheap second hand books) and saw a “classic” – 100 years of solitude. Now I don’t know about you, but I’m intimidated by so-called classic books. I’ve tried to read both Tolstoy and Dickens in the past, but never got much pleasure out of it. Today I started looking at the first couple of paragraphs of 100years, but decided against it. I guess I’ll never be an intellectual!

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