Other people’s books
Professor John Bayley is selling Iris Murdoch’s book collection.
I love to read other people’s annotations in second hand books. I bought a second copy of Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island at a car boot sale because someone had written rude comments in the margins of nearly every page. Bastard!, F***ing bastard!! and Bollocks!!! were among the more polite entries. One of these days I’ll scan in a few pages and post them here.
One of the few things I argue about with ‘im indoors is treatment of books. He likes to keep books as pristine as the day they were bought. I like them dogeared and scrawled upon. Note to potential book lenders: I do not do this to borrowed books. Honestly.
January 19th, 2004 01:51
Maybe it belonged to “Carolyn Gerardo (see more about me) from USA, citizen in UK”
A while back I noticed her negative reviews of many Bryson books at amazon.com (US). I wondered why she kept reading him since it was obviously not her style. Curious, I checked out all info that was available about her and found this on her wish list;
“Bomberman 64 by Nintendo
Gift options not available.
Date Added: December 26, 2001
Desired: 1
Received: 0″
Sad, strange, curious.
October 2nd, 2007 10:02
Hi there Donna,
No it was not me that wrote in the book your response was referring to. If you read my review of the Bryson book you would see that I rented it from the library and it was on audio. I read more than one of his books, because a friend recommended them and I wanted to give it a chance. What is really strange is that you would try to find out personal information about me because you don’t agree with my book rating and find it necessary to post negative comments about me (including games I look at for my kid) on a messageboard. Who is really the sad one?