Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Old Curiosity Shopper

Nick Hornby claims that Dickens is the best author that ever lived. He quotes two interminable pages from David Copperfield about a minor character that we (if we ever read the book which we're guessing we won't) never see again. What's curious, is that reading Nick Hornby about David Copperfield, is so much better than reading Dickens about David Copperfield.
In the meantime, I've downloaded Travels With Herodotus, The Interrogative Mood, and the audiobook, The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie (Unabridged).
Any recommendations?

5 comments:

  1. YEAH, Stop it!!!! I got sweetness at the bottom of the pie for Christmas, and loved it so much and tought you'd like it so much I almost sent it off to you immediately, I thought to myself, oh, just wait, give it to him when he's here then he can have an extra book, but nooooooooo, you can't let anyone do anything nice for you!!!

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  2. p.s, dickens is the best, but i like nick hornby too.

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  3. Maybe I wasn't clear. Do you have recommendations for books I don't have?

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  4. Maybe you'd be more interested in the last Dickens? Though I just got that in the mail too, so if I read it really fast, you could just have a hard copy. . .Also, publisher's weekly says of it: Bestseller Pearl (The Poe Shadow) delivers a period thriller that has the misfortune to fall short of the high standard set by Dan Simmons's Drood. . .

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  5. I recommend the screwtape letters. I enjoyed that one again!

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