Monday, July 05, 2004
I don't know, this sounds kinda fishy to me...
When I buy books, I'm sometimes a bit slow when it comes to the actual reading of them. For instance, I bought The Incomplete Anglers by John Robins last September, and I only finally picked it up about five or six weeks ago. Seeing as I had several magazines and other things on the go, I read it fairly slowly and only finally finished it yesterday morning.
Published in 1943, the book revolves around a fishing/canoeing trip in Algonquin Park taken by Robins and his brother Tom. Although it's often a serious tale of two anglers enjoying the Park and the trout fishing, it's also quite humourous, in that the two make one mistake after another and end up having the adventure of their lives. It's well worth reading if you like fish stories (heheh) and can track down a copy of this (stores around Algonquin Park have it).
And now I'm right into On Writing by Stephen King. This is a book that came out in 2000 and I've resisted the urge to pick it up. However, I bought it a few weeks back and have ventured into it. It's partly an autobiography and partly a book on writing (as the title suggests), but it's odd to take advice from someone like King. Although he's done quite well, I wouldn't ever suggest he's a great writer. Still, he makes a number of valid points, but reading between the lines makes me believe he really doesn't know how he writes -- he just does it. I think he's managed to churn out his forty-odd books more by incredible luck and persistence than anything else.
Published in 1943, the book revolves around a fishing/canoeing trip in Algonquin Park taken by Robins and his brother Tom. Although it's often a serious tale of two anglers enjoying the Park and the trout fishing, it's also quite humourous, in that the two make one mistake after another and end up having the adventure of their lives. It's well worth reading if you like fish stories (heheh) and can track down a copy of this (stores around Algonquin Park have it).
And now I'm right into On Writing by Stephen King. This is a book that came out in 2000 and I've resisted the urge to pick it up. However, I bought it a few weeks back and have ventured into it. It's partly an autobiography and partly a book on writing (as the title suggests), but it's odd to take advice from someone like King. Although he's done quite well, I wouldn't ever suggest he's a great writer. Still, he makes a number of valid points, but reading between the lines makes me believe he really doesn't know how he writes -- he just does it. I think he's managed to churn out his forty-odd books more by incredible luck and persistence than anything else.
// posted by Chris @ 9:50 AM 
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