tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post3816141103377465155..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Irving Wallace, Jeremy Beadle, Sex and DeathNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-18542006721022283872013-03-19T21:43:23.506+00:002013-03-19T21:43:23.506+00:00The memory of a favourite book i have often found ...The memory of a favourite book i have often found to be better than the book itself.....same with places...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-26227928164165334732013-03-19T17:35:29.104+00:002013-03-19T17:35:29.104+00:00Quite right, MM - it really is possible to have to...Quite right, MM - it really is possible to have too many books.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-34312969091158544392013-03-19T16:23:47.222+00:002013-03-19T16:23:47.222+00:00Hmmm....it felt good that I resisted the cult of &...Hmmm....it felt good that I resisted the cult of 'more' - it is what(among other things)steers me away from Kindles(ten-thousand books a click away)and toward paper. I don't want ten-thousand books. I want one book, made from a tree somewhere, in my hand, complete with coffee stains and the odd tram-ticket to use as a bookmark. Am I asking too much?mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-25190628586968839082013-03-19T14:46:01.120+00:002013-03-19T14:46:01.120+00:00Good Lord Mahlerman! I'm tempted to say, small...Good Lord Mahlerman! I'm tempted to say, small world. Shame you didn't avail yourself of more from the Bibliotecha Beadleana...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-16525320805199792432013-03-19T13:37:14.827+00:002013-03-19T13:37:14.827+00:00I knew little or nothing of the prankster Beadle u...I knew little or nothing of the prankster Beadle until one of my sons started 'stepping out' with his daughter Bonnie - in fact they are still together. What it gave me, one afternoon last year, was the opportunity to explore one of the biggest collection of books I had ever seen in private hands - all meticulously catalogued and filed. His widow kindly invited me to 'take what I wanted', but although I had in fact arrived in a van, good manners determined that I just removed a few volumes. I learned a few weeks later that truck-loads had been taken away for a song. Sad, but who wants books these days? You Nige, and me - and the bloke who lives at number 13. Can't think of anybody else.mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.com