October Books

[slemslempike]

October
As James Bond - Roger Moore
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - Rupert Everett

This is probably the least I've ever read. And it's not like I've been doing anything else particularly interesting, just lying around a lot doing nothing. And the Everett I only read because the internet was down one evening. I am still plodding through Nicholas Nickleby, but hope to finish it in the next few days. November crept up on me, or I'd have tried harder to finish by now.

I don't know how I ended up with two actors' memoirs as my books. As James Bond is Roger Moore's account of filming Live and Let Die (...I think), and is quite a good read if you are at all interested in Roger Moore, or have had interest foist upon you by your near and dear. It's a bit 'of its time' with politics, but very distinctive. Rupert Everett also very distinctive voice, but considerably less coherent. Still mostly enjoyable, it's jumps around a lot, in order to fit in the maximum possible number of name-drops.

Comments

[pisica.livejournal.com]

My reading was down in October as well; I think a lot of it is Being Academic. Though in my case it was also slogging through two 400-500 page biographies (Romaine Brooks and Tom Stoppard - the latter really could have been shorter). Pretty much all of my reading these days comes from my long commute.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I wish it was because of increased academic work on my part.

[morganmuffle]

I've never actually read any Dickens all the way through, apart from A Christmas Carol at school. Isn't that an awful thing to say :-S I've read abridged versions... I'm guessing you're not enjoying Nicholas Nickleby hugely though.

I think Rupert Everett's book was probably amusing but not coherent, and the name dropping was hysterical!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yes! The change in tone really didn't work when he was talking about AIDS either - that was interesting, but really incongruous.

I've read A Tale of Two Cities and almost all of Hard Times, but NN is really not inspiring me to pick up any more.