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Attempts To Stop Watching Day Time TV

  • 24-08-2009 02:01AM
    #1
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 24,014 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Yeah, title says it all really. Been watching waaaaaay too much day time TV in my current state of unemployment. While I attempt to re-enter the working world I shall read...or try to.

    So....

    BOOK #1
    The Ring Of Bright Water Trilogy - Gavin Maxwell

    Technically three books rolled into one, so off to a good start, bonus points? Started reading it two years ago though, so that kind of cancells out the bonus points. I lost it for most of those two years though, found it last month in the bottom of my wardrobe, so I decided I should start again.
    Basically it's about this rich English guy who moves up to a tiny cottage in the Highlands of Scotland to write and ends up keeping otters. He gets the first one while travelling off in some foreign country. Times were clearly different in the 50's/60's as he had no bother travelling with an otter. Anyway the three books tell about all his adventures with all these different otters down through the years. A lot of the book I was thinking to myself this guy is an arse. He's just some rich toff with nothing better to do so he passes his time keeping wild animals for his own entertainment.
    I'm glad to say that towards the very end of the book he comes to the realisation that his "paradise" started to fall apart when he started to confine the otters, and that the magic of the place was not from thejust from having the otters themselves but from living with them as wild and free animals.

    Very glad I found it again and finished it. I'm very into wildlife and conservation, plus I'd heard of this guy from people who knew him, and I knew most of the places he talked about in Scotland. I laughed, I cried....bucket loads actually, I got angry and in the end I was happy again. Then I read the epilogue and I cried again....

    On to book number 2....


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  • #2
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 24,014 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    BOOK #2
    Emma - Jane Austen

    Re read this to refresh my memory before the new adaption starts on the BBC this Autumn.
    Not much to say really. It's fantastic.
    I am confused though as to why a lot of people don't seem to like Emma herself. Even Jane Austen said she was a heroine "which nobody but myself would like"
    Anyway... one of my favourite books, definitely my favourite Austen book. Can't wait for the new adaption on TV:)

    Now to choose book number 3....


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