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cgod  ·  4343 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you have a backlog? If so how big is it?

Books, books, books. I am so far behind I think I have to start tossing some overboard. Just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, it was half a great novel, moving on to Bill Brysons History of nearly everything.





user-inactivated  ·  4343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a great book, the Bill Bryson. I try to glance through it every couple of years because there's too much info for just one sitting.q

cgod  ·  4342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Been on my list for two years or so. There was a real asshole that used to come into my work on a daily basis, Bryson was like a god to this guy. It always put me off reading his stuff.

One day the guy was such an asshole that he got 86'ed for life and I let myself read Brysons "At Home" it was terrific. I'm sure I'll like his history as well.

user-inactivated  ·  4342 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He also wrote a tiny little book that taught me more true things about Shakespeare than all of my English courses put together, and a wonderful memoir about walking the Appalachian Trail that made me want to walk the Appalachian Trail.

EDIT: did you know we have six samples of Shakespeare's handwriting, all signatures, all spelled differently, none of which say "William Shakespeare"? Come on, factoids don't get much better than that.