Book rec...

'For Richer, For Poorer' by the unspeakably clever and gorgeous Vicky Coren



Sample convo from every single Monday night during the current run of 'Only Connect'...

Me - That Vicky C is a total

Toots - HAW!! Ah'm no yer mate - right??

You'd need to know your way round a hand of poker - but she's a beautifully emotional writer and the bits where she talks about her relationship with her father...
(the equally Alan Coren)

...are real "I've got something in my eye stuff"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richer-Poorer-Love-Affair-Poker/dp/1847672914/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266526908&sr=1-2

My recent buys have been The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Paula Spencer & The Deportees by Roddy Doyle along with The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Fuck knows if they're any good as I've not read them yet

The only one of those I've read is The Road.

Bleak, blasted and brief (You'll plough through it in a night or two)

It's one of those books that you'll be haunted by weeks after you've finished reading it.

The best thing he's ever written I reckon.

I dunno how else to describe it

You know how when you watched Schindler's List and thought "That is one of the best films I've ever seen... and i never want to go through watching it again?

It's a bit like that.

I recced it to my wee cuz - not realising she was looking for a page-turner/poolside/holiday read.

She's still in two minds whether to forgive me or not

I bought Shindlers List & Hotel Rowanda years ago mate on DVD, still to watch either. I've really got to be in the mood to watch films like that but books are a different matter for some reason

I hadta take a pause break in the middle of Schindler and go and have a cuppa tea and a lie down before the denoument.

Don't think I've ever been hit in the guts by a film that much ever.

Weird feeling.

Know what you mean about being in the mood to watch that kinda thing tho.

And yes... books are different - I'd go with ya on that one.

Dunno why tho