Bloggers sometimes have these sections: "What I am Reading", "What colour are today's socks", "What I am currently wiping my arse with" etc. So here's my contribution.
What I am Currently Reading. Apart from these words that I am typing. Oh and wondering whether there is a sexual meaning behind the fact that so many websites have a button saying "submit". No, to get to the point, if indeed there is one, and in any case it may be better if there wasn't one, urrrm. Damn, I've forgotten. Oh yes. The current book:
Are You Dave Gorman? It's a couple of years old but I don't have to be cutting edge...ever. Are you familiar with it? Please do read on...
Its about a stand-up comedian who takes on a bet to find 54 other people in the world with the same name as him. It's an OK book, quite funny in places and light reading. Good for when you're standing on the tube wishing you weren't.
It does throw up thoughts such as how many more books are there going to be about bets (Tony Hawks' Fridge Round Ireland and Tennis with the Moldavians spring to mind). If you are half decent at writing or recounting a story then you can make a living of doing, lets face it, complete bollocks. Has a certain appeal doesn't it?
The other main thought is at what point in this process did the two of them, the bettee and the bettor who take it in turn to narrate the story, decide to write a book about it. I'm up to Dave Gorman number 35 and they have been on stage, in the papers, on the news and been offered a TV series but apparently the idea of cashing in by writing a book has not occurred to them. Yeah, right.
Posted by grahame at March 23, 2004 02:16 PM | TrackBackDid you ever see the BBC2 TV series? That was hilarious.
I've not quite got around to reading the book yet - don't know if it pre- or post-dated the TV show.
Posted by: Matts at March 23, 2004 06:11 PMNo I didn't see the show. I have just finished reading the book and I found it to be pretty average. You can borrow it if you like.
Posted by: Grahame at March 25, 2004 10:01 AM