The End Of Hibernation
My hibernation has been almost total. With the exception of one trip to Luton last Sunday and a trip to the Vic last Thursday, I've pretty much swerved the casino and tournament scene. It's been a culmination of lethargy and hopefully in some small way a tribute to Salman Rushdie. It's also been a while since I last posted. I gave my password to my good friend Teflon for a guest posting and he changed the password to something more memorable. Unfortunately he forgot what this was and it took him some time to remember where he had written it down. Alas it was on his excel spreadsheet that details his sports betting losses on a day by day basis.
In addition I have been absolutely gripped with a book. It's a book I have wanted to read for sometime but availability is something of a problem. Amazon had it in stock at the end of February so I snapped it up. I have to say that this is undoubtedly the best £15 I have ever given Amazon (and I've given them a few quid), and it is perhaps the best £15 I have ever spent.
Whilst the Satanic Verses may be the most controversial book ever written (certainly of the last 30 years) the quality of the work is masterful and it is no surprise to me that it won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1988. I would urge anyone and everyone to read this book. Salman Rushdie is one of the great authors and it's an absolute tragedy that this book only received such acclaim for the wrong reasons.
I have just purchased Midnight's Children from Amazon as well, another Rushdie classic. I don't really know much about it other than it was published in 1981. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), an Arts Council Writers' Award and the English-Speaking Union Award, and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history. I'm so exited I got up early today (a very rare occurrence) to see if it had arrived yet.
PS. On the poker front I think I will go to Brighton tomorrow to play the £100 Omaha.
In addition I have been absolutely gripped with a book. It's a book I have wanted to read for sometime but availability is something of a problem. Amazon had it in stock at the end of February so I snapped it up. I have to say that this is undoubtedly the best £15 I have ever given Amazon (and I've given them a few quid), and it is perhaps the best £15 I have ever spent.
Whilst the Satanic Verses may be the most controversial book ever written (certainly of the last 30 years) the quality of the work is masterful and it is no surprise to me that it won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1988. I would urge anyone and everyone to read this book. Salman Rushdie is one of the great authors and it's an absolute tragedy that this book only received such acclaim for the wrong reasons.
I have just purchased Midnight's Children from Amazon as well, another Rushdie classic. I don't really know much about it other than it was published in 1981. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), an Arts Council Writers' Award and the English-Speaking Union Award, and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history. I'm so exited I got up early today (a very rare occurrence) to see if it had arrived yet.
PS. On the poker front I think I will go to Brighton tomorrow to play the £100 Omaha.
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