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As (possibly over-) mentioned, the main GRATE thing about COMMUTING into work (HOLA! I am COMMUTER! Quick, Damon Bloody Albarn, write a SCATHING attack on me, then spend the next five years trying to obliterate the memory in the minds of the public by being as big a tosser as possible, YEAH!) is that I get to read REALLY A LOT. HOORAH! So, as a Handy Guide to ... er... other people who want to read loads of books, have precisely the same TASTE as me, and don't have a clue what to get ("He's talking about ME!" you cry!), here is the Recent Reading Review:

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, obviously. This was ACE, an Rollicking Read though not as funny as the other ones I've read. And I thought that even before I read it on the back cover. At the end of reading it I got VERY angry about the French Revolution.
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, sequel to "The Eyre Affair". Dead good, actually LOTS like a comic, with the IDEAS and that, but also a bit of a CON in that it ends on a cliff hanger. Do I LOOK like the sort of person who reads Fantasy Trilogies eh? (NB: NO! I do NOT! Sod off!)
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome. BLOODY GRATE! Like "Three Men In A Boat", but with more stuff about The German People, also Bicycles. This book was FANTASTIC, it's hard to believe it was written 100 years ago. Also cool because it turns out he lived in Bloomsbury, so I got the chance to PONCE AROUND Imagining JKJ being there. A bit.
Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About by Mil Millington - ACE. Like the column but, obviously, much longer. The plot bits were a bit dodgy, and it ended a bit crappily, but doesn't really matter as all the funny bits had nothing to do with the (as said, a bit rubbish) plot, and there were a LOT of them.

I think that's the lot - if there was something else I was reading I must have FORGOT so can't have been much cop. NEXT is that "How to Alienate People" book by Toby Young, which so far has mentioned Julie Burchill a lot, which is a Good Thing I reckon.
posted 1/2/2003 by MJ Hibbett

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