Month: May 2003
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The Essential Spike Milligan
I got this at work, and was really only reading it, as I had no other books to hand and wanted something to read. I fairly raced through it, but must admit that I skipped entire extracts. I suppose that I’ve never really got The Goons, so complete scripts of various episodes make fairly hard…
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BBC Big Read Top 100
Well the BBC’s top 100 books have been published, and they’re a bit disappointing. Harry Potter’s there in abundance – surely it should be counted as one book like Lord of the Rings? Then there are books like Animal Farm which are evidently books people read at school for O Level or GCSE. And of…
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Murakami
Nice big piece in today’s Guardian Review about the phenomenom that is Haruki Murakami.
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My Route To Work
Well I’ve been trying something different this week. I can save a third on my travel costs if I get an overground only train ticket. That means that I have to travel in to Kings Cross, and head off on foot, but this has a bonus of being some actual exercise – with a half…
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The Best A Man Can Get
This book is extremely popular in medialand, a bit like E. And also like E, it had been sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time. I only really picked it up because it was the morning after our party at work, and my bag was still at work. As it turns out, it was…