Our neighbour is moving out and has left a stack of books behind for us to rummage through and keep or give away as we feel fit. They’re an odd selection – lots of classic boys’ own stuff for the most part, like Rider Haggard and Jules Verne, but there are some other, more esoteric, volumes as well. The other half has just reported the latest additions to the pile: the SAS Survival manual, the Complete Book of Air Rifle Hunting and Language, Truth and Logic by A.J. Ayer.
We’ve passed on the latter two – I’m more of a late Wittgenstein woman, myself – but the former has a section on lighting fires. And as soon as I’ve wrenched the other half away from the chapter on shark wrestling, I shall be checking it out. With that, and your excellent advice, I’m sure we’ll be in front of a blazing fire in no time.
Hopefully, in the cottage, rather than of it.
well if theres any starwars, harry turtledove or eric flints 163*s series…..
I used to have a friend who did German translation for a patent attorneys and he was forever acquiring odd dictionaries which is why the two most esoteric books I have are English for military leaders (that’s its subtitle, the proper title is in German and it’s a German-English dictionary of military terms) and a dictionary of beekeeping terms in 5 different languages (there are several editions of this covering many languages, apparently one that included Swahili was being prepared when my copy went to print. Add that to my complete set of Terry Pratchett books, my array of Sci-Fi and my book on programming the EGA, VGA and SVGA cards and you start to realise why people call me odd
Dom – try ‘eclectic’ rather than ‘odd’. Much politer…
Psycho – nope, although we’re now the proud owner of some Elvis records, if that helps
nah its alrite i’ll pass lol…