From Scotland on Sunday, March 2004-What books are on your bedside table?
Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburu Oe, All Quiet on the Western -Which books have you been unable to finish? Kenzaburu Oe has been on the bedside table for about as long as -What was your favourite childhood book? Willard Price’s Adventure series, in which a boy’s give-away weakness -Which book would you buy as a present? I’m currently buying Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai. This eighteenth-century How To guide advises the true warrior to wear rouge, and ‘underwear made from the skin of a badger’. It also justifies random decapitation. Highly therapeutic. Any of the caricatured young women in blockbuster novels from the -Which authors do you most admire? Dead ones, mostly. To really admire an author, it helps to re-invent their personality as well as the events in their books. Less chance of disappointment. -Bookmark or page fold? Bookmark, obviously, or what would the librarian say? I currently |
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