It's World Book Day today; a day when English teachers give out €1.50 book vouchers which become a home to the fungi growing at the bottom of most students' bags. I was going to expose my problem with books. Richard Waghorne seems to have the same problem too. I keep buying books. I have a massive pile of unread books, yet a still come out of book shops with more books. Yes, plural. The list of sorts in the sidebar lies, I can't seem to read one book at a time. Currently, I'm jumping between Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Martin Amis' Moronic Inferno, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, The Great Philosophers and probably some more I can't remember, which says a lot. That short catalogue only accounts for the books I've opened. I have maybe another 10 books on my bookshelf waiting to be read. This doesn't exactly bode well for a Leaving Cert. student.
This isn't bad, however. In his absolute gem of a short book about books, So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid writes:
This isn't bad, however. In his absolute gem of a short book about books, So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid writes:
So Richard, it's not just good to have them around the house, the ability to have them there makes one a cultured indivdual. I think I might head to Waterstone's tomorrow, a few more books can't hurt.
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Top reviews:
DVD player
Digital Camera
Portable MP3 player
Travel
Product search: |
E-mail Kevin: blast_portmarnockREMOVE@yahoo.com
Email Michael: mickonline2REMOVE@yahoo.com
Previous posts
Archives
Latest Comments
Irish Blogs
-
Analogue
An Unrepentant Communist
Blue Birds Are So Natural
Cedar Lounge Revolution
Ciaran O'Kelly
Crabling Otter
Damien Mulley
Eoin Purcell
Fustar
Lord Byron's Pistol Club
Midnight Court
Most Sincerely Folks
Poetbloggs
Robert Donohoe
Shock
Twenty Major
A special place in my heart
'Proper' Journalism etc.
The Wireless
BBC Radio
4RTE Radio 1
