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* sort of GCSES for cave men.
Next up is Into the wild by John Krakauer.
Great film, preferred it to the book, which left me a bit 'meh'.
I rarely give up on books, but 200 pages in (just over half way) and I’ve just put it down in disappointment. It’s not funny. It’s tedious. It has no plot. He misses the mark of the central characters. Utter crap. No wonder it’s sat on my shelf for five years - I must’ve had a premonition.
Any other Adams fans read this? Is it just me, or is it crap?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Just finished The legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth, really good little Novella with an excellent translation by Michael Hoffman. A bit bleak as Joseph Roth pretty much drank himself into the grave in Paris just after finishing this book.
There is a Dennis Johnson shaped hole in my reading life since he passed away in 2017, which is still fairly hard to fill though.
My feedback thread is here.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57602/
Popular psychology I guess but full of interesting asides. For those of us who have been talking to strangers professionally at all ( particularly strangers who might have reason to lie) thought provoking stuff.
Starting the Eric Clapton autobio next. I’m not much of a fan of his later music but I’m interested to read about his early days with John Mayall and Cream, meeting Hendrix, how he beat his addiction etc.