Wednesday, February 18, 2015

January 25, 2015 -- Book 035


This book number was full of false starts.

YIKES!

First, I turned on A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh but had hardly gotten into the first few minutes when I stopped it and decided to try something else.

Next, since it is part of the Nursery Crime novel, The Big Over Easy, and I had never read it, I decided Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray should find its way into my reading list.  This seemed like a good time to do just that.  The version I have is a nine hour novel and I actually got three hours and nine minutes into it before I gave up and said "THIS IS BORING" and went in search of something "better" (or more suitable to my mood, I guess) ...

I ended up back with Discworld's Eric by Terry Pratchett.  Rincewind escorts a teen-aged demonologist who demands three wishes -- the rule the world, the meet the most beautiful woman and to live forever ...


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