9. On the Road 10. The Hippopotamus

[maware]

Title: On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac
Synopsis:(from amazon.co.uk) here
My thoughts: I make a point of reading cult classics. Aside from wanting to get past the hype, I find they're often very good accounts of an era of history long gone. Especially since this novel, in particular, is just thinly-veiled autobiography. (Which I'm not using as a

Comments

[littlebird]

I do love Stephen Fry! Jeeves and Wooster seems to be on the telly quite a lot. I've never read a book by him though, maybe I'll have a look the next time I'm in the library.
I'm reading Great Expectations too! I'm actually reading about 15 books at the moment :D and yet failing miserably. It's typical, as soon as I decide to document the books I read, I stop.

[maware]

Jeeves and Wooster is such fun! I wish I had a butler like him. But if you've ever seen any episodes of A bit of Fry and Laurie, you can see that it's him co-writing it. It's really hard to describe, but he's very good that sort of verbose, slightly rude but quite clever way of writing. Gah! I just love it!

How are you finding Great Expectations? I have to admit it's the only Dickens novel that I haven't been tempted to give up on, but I'm still not finding it particularaly easy to read.

It's typical, as soon as I decide to document the books I read, I stop.
Me too! I think I update this journal a good while after I finish a book. I just don't really know what to say, and I keep getting sidetracked etc. Still, since it was my New Year's resolution, I have to keep going just because I refuse to be beaten!