Holiday Reading
"According to this you did sixty-three miles on Wednesday the fourth, sixty-three miles on Thursday the fifth, and on Friday the sixth, one million, twelve thousand and twenty-two miles. Where did you go that day?""That should say sixty-three miles." I said. "Sorry, must have put it down wrong."
Magnus Mills - the scheme for full employment.
There was a lot in the papers recently about the holiday reading list posh twat David Cameron gave to his follow twat heads to read over the (twatting long) summer holidays. It's all bollocks of course. Not a single one of them is going to read "Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521-1580" by Roger Crowley. There's a slight chance a few of them might skim through "The Rise of Boris Johnson" and chuckle at how the bumbling racist somehow found power, but really, are any of them going to read "Inside the Private Office: Memoirs of the Secretary to British Foreign Ministers, Nicholas Henderson Britain in Africa"? Of course not, it's all just silly season guff.
My holiday reading tastes are simpler. I spend every day at work thinking so why would I want to spend my holiday thinking? Books by Magnus Mills are the best holiday reading I've come across. They're short, sharp, utterly dry, entertaining, and pretty much unlike anything else I've ever read to be honest (not that I'm much of a reader). I'll also be taking some Spike Milligan and a biography on Stalin. That last one might sound contradictary, but well written biographies are as exciting and engaging as any novel. If it's not well written, I'll just chuck it in the bin. Well, I won't because it's a library book, I'll first take it back, wait for them to scan it, and then snatch it back of the and throw it in a bin melodramatically and say "That, sir, was utter shit".
2 Comments:
what's a good starter?
I guess his first novel - "Restrain of Beasts" is a good place to start. Or "All Quiet on the Orient Express".
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